Alien::...Install(3)

πŸ’– Alien::Build::Plugin::Core::CleanInstall πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this page is like, the manual for Alien::Build::Plugin::Core::CleanInstall(3) β€” yes that's a whole mouthful, it's giving "my name is a namespace and I'm proud of it" πŸ’…. It's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation situation, and it's literally the implementation for the clean_install hook. That's the whole plot. Sit down, hydrate, let's go πŸ“


✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Build::Plugin::Core::CleanInstall β€” the implementation for the clean_install hook. that's it, that's the name, she's a plugin, she's core, she cleans installs 🧚


🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.88 β€” that's the number, no cap πŸ‘‘


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

like, here's how you'd see it in the wild:

use alienfile;
# already loaded

and that's the tea β€” you don't load it yourself, it's already loaded. she's just there. main character energy but make it quiet 🌈


πŸ’« DESCRIPTION πŸ’«

so this plugin is the one that implements the default clean_install hook. she's the factory setting, the og, the blueprint ✨

and here's the part where I hold your hand and say it very gently: you shouldn't use it directly. fr fr. she's not for you to poke at, bestie, she's doing her job behind the scenes while you live your life πŸ’…


πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

  • Alien::Build
  • Alien::Base::ModuleBuild

go read those if you want the full lore, iykyk 🫢


πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org> β€” the actual legend who made this happen, we stan 🌟

Contributors β€” okay this list is long and every single one of them ate, so let's give them their flowers, one by one, no skips, no summarising, periodt πŸ’

  • Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
  • Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
  • Ilya Pavlov
  • David Mertens (run4flat)
  • Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
  • Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
  • Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
  • Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
  • mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
  • Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
  • Flavio Poletti (polettix)
  • Salvador FandiΓ±o (salva)
  • Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
  • Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
  • Kang-min Liu (εŠ‰εΊ·ζ°‘, gugod)
  • Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
  • Juan JuliΓ‘n Merelo GuervΓ³s (JJ)
  • Joel Berger (JBERGER)
  • Petr PΓ­saΕ™ (ppisar)
  • Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
  • Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
  • JosΓ© JoaquΓ­n Atria (JJATRIA)
  • Duke Leto (LETO)
  • Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
  • Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
  • Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
  • HΓ₯kon HΓ¦gland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
  • nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
  • Florian Weimer
  • Marcel Telka (mtelka)

the way that this is a whole community and they all showed up for one little hook 😭 iconic behaviour, truly πŸŽ€


This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go wild, but respectfully, and with the same license vibe as Perl 5 itself πŸ’–


real talk though: if you were hoping this page had forty flags to obsess over β€” nope. it's a tiny core plugin, she said "I do one thing and I do it well," and honestly? slay πŸ’…βœ¨

and that's a wrap, bestie β€” this was generated for perl v5.42.3 and stamped 2026-09-21, so if you're reading this way later, hi, hope you're hydrated πŸ«ΆπŸŒΈπŸ’œ

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