RPM::G...pecFile(3pm)

🌸 RPM::G...pecFile — the 3pm one, bestie 💅

okay so real talk: this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page. That's the manual-name vibe. It lives in the perl 3pm section, and it is, at this exact moment in time, a template. A little baby scaffold. It's giving "someone made the file and then got distracted by a snack." 🍓

No cap, every single thing on this page is a FIXME. And that's not me being shady — that's literally what's written. So let's walk it together, holding hands, like the besties we are. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

FIXME — FIXME

that's it. that's the name section. two FIXMEs staring at each other across an em dash. iconic, honestly. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Fixme::FIXME;

....

so the vibe is: you use the module, and then something happens. The four dots .... are doing so much heavy lifting here. They are the main character. They contain multitudes. We do not know what they contain. Nobody knows. 🌈

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

FIXME fixme fixme fixme

three lowercase fixmes and one uppercase FIXME. a whole personality. lowkey poetic. highkey unfinished. no further details are provided, so no further details will be invented by me, because that would be lying and we don't do that here. 💜

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✨ CONSTRUCTOR ✨

FIXME-only if OO

read that again, bestie. The constructor is only a thing if the module is OO. If it's not OO, this whole section is just vibes and empty space. We don't know which one it is, because — say it with me — FIXME.

new( FIXME-args )

FIXME FIXME describe constructor

yes. two FIXMEs and an instruction to describe the constructor. It's a to-do list inside a manpage inside a Perl distribution. It's giving "inception but make it documentation." 😭

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✨ METHODS ✨

FIXME document methods

we are being told, in plain text, to document the methods. The methods have not been documented. The methods may not even exist. Schrödinger's API. 🦋

method1

...

method2

...

both methods are three dots. They are twins. They are indistinguishable. I respect them deeply. 🙈

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✨ EXPORTED FUNCTIONS ✨

(this section is empty)

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✨ EXPORTED CONSTANTS ✨

(this section is also empty)

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✨ EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS ✨

(and this one. three in a row. a little row of nothing. a peaceful meadow of emptiness. 🌸)

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✨ FILES ✨

(empty. nothing to see. no files listed. moving on, babes.)

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

L<>

that's a POD link with nothing inside it. No target. No destination. A link to nowhere. It's the void, and it's formatted correctly, and I'm obsessed with it. 💀

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>

hi Ed!! 👋 the only actual, real, factual, non-FIXME content on this entire page. We love a named human. We stan accountability. 🎀

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✨ POD ERRORS ✨

ooh okay, we gotta talk about this one, because it's the spicy part. 🔥

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

and then:

Around line 298:

An empty L<>

yep. That L<> from SEE ALSO — the one with nothing in it — that's the crime. Perl's POD parser clocked it, filed a report, and put it right here in public. Line 298. Empty link. Case closed, bestie. The documentation ratted itself out. 🕵️♀️✨

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and that's the whole page, fr fr. every FIXME, every ..., every empty section, all of it, intact and accounted for. nothing skipped, nothing invented, nothing "helpfully" filled in. periodt. 💖

stay hydrated, read your manpages, and if you ever find yourself writing a L<> with nothing inside it, just know that Perl will absolutely put you on blast around line 298. iykyk. 💅

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this lil rewrite was served up fresh from the User Contributed Perl Documentation for perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — the same version and date as the original RPM::G...pecFile(3pm) page, because facts are facts even when the delivery is cute. mwah. 🫶🌈