About the Perl .packlist files and their usefulness...

[Maxime Soulé]

Le 28.10.2014 18:35, Mathieu Arnold a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have some infrastructure work on the stove, and I was wondering if
> there was any *real* need for the .packlist files.  If someone really
> uses them, what for, and could some other source of file list be used ?
>
> Regards,
https://metacpan.org/pod/App::FatPacker use these files.

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-cpanminus/bin/cpanm too for
uninstalling modules, but in the perl system case, cpanm is normally not
needed.

Regards,

Max.