Re: [gentoo-dev] anybody interested in writing a Perl ebuild?

[Grant]

>> May I ask why you force the g-cpan category to dev-perl?
>
> Using that category solves many issues in advance, ie: if you
> generated an ebuild locally, and then we provided a maintained copy,
> portage would just switch from one to the other seamlessly where
> needed without you having to modify all ebuilds that depend on it.
>
> ie:
>
> if a package was installed in perl-gcpan/ instead ( which used to be
> the case iirc ), you then have:
>
>  perl-gcpan/foo : DEPENDS dev-perl/bar
>  perl-gcpan/baz : DEPENDS perl-gcpan/foo
>
> And if you want to cede development of "foo" to an overlay/gentoo,
> you'd have to change perl-gcpan/baz to point to perl-gcpan/foo
> instead.
>
> With the packages all in dev-perl, no such changes are required.

I was thinking it would be nice to know which ebuilds came from
g-cpan, but now that I think about it I suppose it doesn't really
matter.

Thanks a lot for your help!

- Grant