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

[Andrej Zverev]

It simply duplicates the functionality of our package manager.
What files are installed. See the list of these files. Delete these files.
So in short, we don't need this file inside packages.


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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,
>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
>