On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Leon Timmermans wrote:

> Currently rakudo supports two install locations: lib and site/lib. These 
> should be switched the other way around, otherwise one can't upgrade a module 
> shipped with rakudo without overwriting the original.

Agree, for the reasons that Perl 5 made this switch.

In the short term, it avoids problems with "shadowing" vs needing to overwrite
the master copy (which upsets inferior package managers)

In the long term doing "site" first also provides a way for Star to phase out
shipping superceded modules.

Nicholas Clark

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