[Catalyst] Re: list of perl-*.rpm files for a basic Cat install

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Thu Aug 21 23:00:08 BST 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:00:17PM -0500, James S. White wrote:
> I've already gone through this procedure:
> 
> My notes are here:
> 
> http://github.com/fapestniegd/wcyd/tree/master/scratch/procedures/el5/installing_catalyst_on_el5
> 
> There are a lot of them (~137), Matt an I disagree on the using of CPAN
> instead of real packages. I say "real" packages, because package management
> is as much about being able to cleanly remove the files from a system as
> adding them.

That's what .packlist files are for - you can almost always do

rm -r `cat /path/to/distribution/.packlist`

and if you can't I tend to consider that a bug.

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