Arch Linux

Description:

In general *.pod files don't need to be included in the perl package nor in any other perl/CPAN-related pkg. Right now "perl" provides 158 such files, which are all superfluous since we have the corresponding manpages. A similar situation occurs with the following pkgs (sorry I am too lazy to open a different task for each of them!) :

glib-perl
gtk2-perl
perl-archive-zip
perl-bit-vector
perl-carp-clan
perl-date-calc
perl-date-manip
perl-dbd-mysql
perl-dbi
perl-event
perl-file-mimeinfo
perl-libwww
perl-mime-lite
perl-mime-types
perl-module-build
perl-pod-simple
perl-template-toolkit
perl-tk
perl-version
perl-xml-simple

Same thing with the .packlist file, which is currently included in "perl" and in "subversion".

The solution is simple. Add these two lines at the end of the PKGBUILD:

find $startdir/pkg -name '*.pod' -delete
find $startdir/pkg -name .packlist -delete

(NB: cf. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Package_Guidelines)