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From: Michele Beltrame <admin@×××××××××.info>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] g-cpan does not detect perltidy
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:02:58
Message-Id: 42F114CC.6040203@talkblade.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] g-cpan does not detect perltidy by Michael Cummings
1 Hi!
2
3 > or at least error and say that it is an ebuild already. is the module
4 > separable from the package though? Just wondering...
5
6 Searching on CPAN it seems the console program and the Perl module are
7 in the same package:
8
9 http://search.cpan.org/~shancock/Perl-Tidy-20031021/
10
11 and so is in Gentoo: dev-perl/perltidy has it all.
12
13 > btw, the real issue here is that g-cpan is kinda dumb when it comes to
14 > packages that rename themselves (like /perl-tidy/i vs /perltidy/i) - i
15 > have thoughts on ways to correct this in the next version, always open
16
17 Yep, the naming of module packages is a bit of a problem in
18 circumstances like this. By the way, how is this resolved in situations
19 such as LWP vs libwww-perl?
20
21 Michele.
22
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24 Michele Beltrame
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Re: [gentoo-perl] g-cpan does not detect perltidy Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>