dependency Socket::MsgHdr undocumented

dependency Socket::MsgHdr undocumented

[Uwe Kleine-König]

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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.

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

Just a quick note to let you know ...

Best regards
Uwe

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Re: dependency Socket::MsgHdr undocumented

[Eric Wong]

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*