Alien::...Install(3)
π Alien::Build::Plugin::Core::CleanInstall π
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" π
. 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 π
β¨ NAME β¨
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 π§
πΈ VERSION πΈ
version 2.88 β that's the number, no cap π
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
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 π
π« DESCRIPTION π«
so this plugin is the one that implements the default clean_install hook. she's the factory setting, the og, the blueprint β¨
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 π
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
Alien::BuildAlien::Base::ModuleBuild
go read those if you want the full lore, iykyk π«Ά
π AUTHOR π
Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org> β the actual legend who made this happen, we stan π
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 π
- 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 (εεΊ·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 π iconic behaviour, truly π
π COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE π
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 π
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 π β¨
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 π«ΆπΈπ
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: perl-Alien-Build 2.88-1.fc43 Β· GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
- fedora 44: perl-Alien-Build 2.88-1.fc44 Β· GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms