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On properly packaging perl

On properly packaging perl

Posted Aug 27, 2009 2:50 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: On properly packaging perl by djpig
Parent article: On properly packaging perl

"perl-modules" is architecture-independent whereas "perl" is architecture-dependent since it contains native code. Separating the two saves space in the archive and its mirrors, and on multi-arch installation media.


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