Re: [gentoo-perl] r37 - in trunk: bin extra-docs

[Michael Cummings]

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:23, Antoine Raillon wrote:
> antoine.raillon@××××××.net a écrit :
> > Another thing : did you see *John* or some nick like that on
> #gentoo-perl ? He said he had difficulties to build
> Exception::Class::DBI. I tried to g-cpan -i it once, and i saw CPAN
> directly asking me for Module-Build. I answered no to CPAN installation,
> then g-cpan said there was already an ebuild for Module::Build and
> started to emerge things.. I stopped it by force at this point, but I
> think we've a source of possible mess here ;)

Been a little out of sorts the last week, haven't been on irc at all really 
(sorry). The only way around this problem, really, is to either:
* Come up with a new way of determining dependancies (which I think is in 
order anyway given that other todo/wish item i added, making sure the 
dependancy is also the met by version). Currently we let cpan unpack the 
downloaded module and do a dry run to see what deps it complains about. It's 
ugly, nasty, but works in a sick, fatalistic way.
* Make module-build a dep for g-cpan.

To resum the problem, when cpan goes to try and build the module to see what 
deps are missing, if the module uses module-build then it craps out and tries 
to install module-build, but we have an ebuild for it, hence the ugly 
situation.

And all of this aside - g-cpan is still sexy and a millions times better than 
it used to be :)


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