Re: [PATCH resend] perl/Makefile.PL: teach makefiles about possible old Error.pm files

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:26:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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.

I don't see how you can say "true" to what I said and keep git doing the
exact opposite. :-)

Anyway, there are other ways to fix this than INSTALLED_BY and I'm not
married to that idea, but if this isn't seen as a problem in the first
place, there's little use.

Would you accept a patch to the INSTALL file explaining this dependency?

Thanks,
- Chris