Gentoo Archives: gentoo-perl

From: Yuval Yaari <yuval@g.o>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] Scalar::Util qw( weaken )
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:59
Message-Id: 49CA0407.1080708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] Scalar::Util qw( weaken ) by Alex Efros
1 Alex Efros wrote:
2 > It's usual for me to take some module from CPAN just to evaluate it in
3 > several minutes and drop. Installing it manually isn't an option because
4 > it may need up to 20-30 other modules as dependencies. Ask in list to add
5 > them in portage has a little sense because chances are I'll not need it
6 > after a day and it's hard to wait for several days until it will be added.
7 >
8
9 Try g-cpan, it should help you in situations like the one you've mentioned.
10 Eventually the module + deps turn into ebuilds and are installed with
11 emerge...
12
13 HTH,
14
15 ~Y