[arch-general] perl 5.10.1-3 broken ?

Firmicus Firmicus at gmx.net
Thu Oct 8 05:15:14 EDT 2009


Ashish SHUKLA a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've noticed that the recent perl update (5.10.1-3) has not installed any PODs
> which are required by 'perldoc' for displaying documentation. Are PODs moved
> to some different package ?
>
> #v+
> % pacman -Ql perl |fgrep .pod
> % pacman -Q perl
> perl 5.10.1-3
> #v-
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ashish SHUKLA
>   

See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16488

But please, "broken" is too strong! Perl is not broken. It's just that
because of the purge options in makepkg.conf, all pods have been
deleted. But ALL the documentation is still there in the form of manpages.

FC




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