Tom, all,
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> writes:
> > On 2/28/18 2:28 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> That's basically a recursive chmod, so chmod_recursive is more adapted?
> >> I could imagine that this is useful as well for removing group
> >> permissions, so the new mode could be specified as an argument.
>
> > The required package (File::chmod::Recursive) for chmod_recursive is not
> > in use anywhere else and was not installed when I installed build
> > dependencies.
>
> > I'm not sure what the protocol for introducing a new Perl module is? I
> > couldn't find packages for the major OSes. Are we OK with using CPAN?
>
> I don't think that's cool. Anything that's not part of a standard Perl
> installation is a bit of a lift already, and if it's not packaged by
> major distros then it's really a problem for many people. (Yeah, they
> may know what CPAN is, but they might have local policy issues about
> installing directly from there.)
Agreed.
Thanks!
Stephen
