From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:26:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd4new8qx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080522164300.GA19765@foursquare.net> (Chris Frey's message of "Thu, 22 May 2008 12:43:00 -0400")
Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net> writes:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:46:12PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> I do not see how it is _Git_ that breaks itself by repeated installs. It
>> detects that there is an Error.pm. Fine. You _remove_ it while
>> installing Git. Not fine. Not Git's error.
>
> I guess I take the view that anything _installed_ by git is a part of git.
> If git installs Error.pm, it can't expect the user to keep it around
> if he uninstalls that version of git.
True, as we do not give "uninstall" target. That's what distros are for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 1:16 [PATCH] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files Chris Frey
2008-05-17 1:25 ` Chris Frey
2008-05-21 22:21 ` [PATCH resend] " Chris Frey
2008-05-21 22:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-21 23:56 ` Chris Frey
2008-05-22 11:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-22 16:43 ` Chris Frey
2008-05-22 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-05-22 18:12 ` Chris Frey
2008-05-23 19:22 ` [PATCH] INSTALL: explain Error.pm dependency Chris Frey
2008-05-22 21:56 ` [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files Sverre Rabbelier
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