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Yep, that's a bit stupid :)
(Note than "man perlfunc" does work ... but then of course you have to search for the function name manually within your $PAGER).
However, building with option '!purge' keeps ALL pod files, which is not what we want.
Perhaps we should only keep those under /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/pod/, which includes the file perlfunc.pod (which perldoc parses when called with option -f).
Opinions?

Huh, call me crazy but imho unless you have !docs I would think you would want the pods...

Anyway is /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/pod/ where perlre, perlfaq, perldelta and friends live (a quick look says yes it is)? If so that would get my vote :)

I guess if some people really hate pods maybe a perl-doc package like d*bi*n (name censored to protect the innocent) would be in order?

Well, I think it's simpler to include them in the core perl package. They don't take that much space.
I have added these lines to the PKGBUILD (besides the option '!purge') and I think that will do it:

# Remove all pod files *except* those under /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/pod/
rm -f $pkgdir/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/*.pod
for d in $pkgdir/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/*; do
if [ -d $d -a $(basename $d) != "pod" ]; then
find $d -name *.pod -delete
fi
done
find $pkgdir/usr/lib -name *.pod -delete
find $pkgdir -name .packlist -delete

Not committed yet. Comments welcome ;)

Tried it out yep, that works. I dont like the !purge... Is it less ugly than something like the below? i dunno

for f in $pkgdir/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/pod/*.pod; do
mv $f $f.keeppod
done

# somewere off in a postinst
for f in $pkgdir/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/pod/*.keeppod; do
mv $f `basename $f .keeppod`
done

Nope, that is a very bad idea, because pacman would register the .keeppod files, and know nothing about the .pod ones!

The ugly thing is the default purge. !purge just turns this off.