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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: dependency Socket::MsgHdr undocumented
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:07:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220322090751.GA11365@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220311133808.22jnjv2b6eplerq5@pengutronix.de>

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while packaging public-inbox 1.7.0 for Debian I noticed that the
> (optional) dependency on Socket::MsgHdr isn't described in the INSTALL
> document.

Right, I've been debating whether it's worth making INSTALL larger
for performance-only things, especially since it mainly affects
lei users.

Inline::C covers more functionality (at the expense of slow startup time);
I'm working on supporting this via pure-Perl for Linux users (the vast
majority), here, too.

Having too much in the INSTALL can be too intimidating, so I'm
trying to balance that out.  It's already in lei-overview(7);
and IIRC it only affects lei, atm.

> The Debian package is called libsocket-msghdr-perl, don't know about the
> others.

Yup, AFAIK Debian + derivatives are the only distros with it.

> Just a quick note to let you know ...

Thanks.  I do worry about the quantity of documentation + dependencies
being too intimidating to new users, especially for dependencies with
a narrow scope of usefulness and availability.

*shrug*

      reply	other threads:[~2022-03-22  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-11 13:38 dependency Socket::MsgHdr undocumented Uwe Kleine-König
2022-03-22  9:07 ` Eric Wong [this message]

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