Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl extra modules

[Benjamin Ritcey]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 11:41, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Michael Cummings sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > I'd recommend only maintaining those perl modules that actually are
> > depended on, and even then discouraging the use of ebuilds for
> > loading perl modules
>
> Right. There's the problem of thousands of out-of-date ebuilds. I
> guess this isn't so much of a problem with the other languages as they
> don't have as many modules as are on the CPAN. I think we've discussed
> all the issues. What do the gentoo team think we should do? Have lots
> of ebuilds? Use CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS instead? Somewhere inbetween?

I ran across BSDPAN a little while ago - like the CPAN module, but
registers installed perl mods in the BSD PKG_DB

Food for thought, perhaps:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1253580+1258568+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-ports/20010204.freebsd-ports


HTH,

-b