MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.54.6 released

Sun May 28 15:15:28 IST 2006

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:35:22PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Jules, I'm somewhat unhappy about the "uncoordinated" use of perl packages 
> and names. I think the use of widely available rpm distributions is 
> preferrable to installing three packages with the same functionality but 
> different names that in the end seem to be the same perl module name and 
> overwrite the exact same files in the perl tree. I don't think this does 
> any good to the Perl installation. 
> If MailScanner uses packages of its own that are bundled only with 
> MailScanner I think they should be named in a way that makes that clear 
> (f.i. perl-MailScanner-packagename) and get their own *module name* so 
> that they don't overwrite each other with the same module but different 
> rpm name.
> I'm not a Perl guru, though, and my gut feeling may be wrong.
> 
> f.i. module Filesys::Df
> this got introduced as:
> perl-Filesys-Statvfs_Statfs_Df-0.78-1.src.rpm
> now you changed it to:
> perl-Filesys-Df-0.90-1.src.rpm
> (where I can't find any other source for than your tar.gz)
> 
> when searching yum repositories I find:
> perl-Filesys-DiskFree.noarch
> perl-Filesys-DiskSpace.noarch
> which may or may not carry the same functionality.
>

Check with the modules Author.

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