[ic] Does IC install extra stuff?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 06:03:23 UTC 2009


>> >> >> I'm running Gentoo and I like to have portage (Gentoo's package
>> >> >> manager) manage as many of my software installations as possible.
>>  I
>> >> >> wanted to install all of IC's dependencies manually via portage
>> so I
>> >> >> answered "no" to the 2 questions about installing prerequisites
>> >> during
>> >> >> make install.  It seems like IC downloads and installs a lot of
>> >> stuff
>> >> >> though.  They seem to be perl modules.  Is there a way to prevent
>> >> this
>> >> >> from happening?
>> >> >
>> >> > Install all the required and optional perl modules that IC uses
>> >> before
>> >> > you install IC.  All of the modules are listed in
>> >> > Bundle::InterchangeKitchenSink.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Peter
>> >>
>> >> I should have been more clear.  I did exactly what you said, I
>> >> installed each of the dependencies before installing IC and said
>> 'no'
>> >> to IC's prereq/bundle questions.  It still looked like IC was
>> >> downloading a bunch of stuff.  Is there a way to figure out what
>> files
>> >> were installed?
>> >
>> > Is there perhaps anything more under your interchange/lib directory
>> further
>> > than lib/Vend and lib/UI  ?
>> >
>> > CU,
>> >
>> > Gert
>>
>> Yes, I ended up with a lot:
>>
>> # ls /usr/local/interchange/lib
>> Bundle    DBI.pm  HTTP        LWP.pm  Parse        Storable.pm  Vend
>> dbixs_rev.pl    lwptut.pod
>> Business  Digest  Image       MIME    Roadmap.pod  TASKS.pod    WWW
>> hints.pl        perllocal.pod
>> DBD       File    IniConf.pm  Net     Set          Term         Win32
>> install_lsb.pl  relocate.pl
>> DBI       HTML    LWP         OLE     Spreadsheet  UI           auto
>> lwpcook.pod
>>
>> Is that a whole slew of perl modules?  Will IC use those instead of
>> the ones I installed into the system via portage?
>
> I suppose that depends on the order in your perl lib path?
>
> CU,
>
> Gert

OK, but should all of that have been installed during a make install
in which I'm trying to keep it as minimal as possible?  Is that the
expected function of make install here?  I just don't have much
experience with it.

- Grant



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