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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:39 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> Maybe race isn't quite the right word.  But recipe A depends on
> lib$something-perl-native, and brings in perl-native.  It also checks
> for perl in its auto-foo and finds our perl.  It now also uses our perl
> when it wants a host perl and all of the potential bad things happen, yes?

What are the circumstances in which it would want a host perl?  I don't
quite understand the issue here.  Surely anything that the host perl can
do, perl-native plus some combination of libfoo-perl-native can also do,
right?

p.