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On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 16:57:54 -0400 |
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Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> I know we've got a ton of Perl packages for the core set of Perl modules, |
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> but doesn't the CPAN eclass also have the capability to auto-generate an |
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> ebuild package for virtually any Perl package distributed via CPAN? Can |
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> that logic be used with the CTAN system in its own eclass and then we remove |
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> the 16k+ texlive modules off of our mirrors completely? Or at the worst, we |
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> might just have to generate ebuilds for texlive modules and treat them as |
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> discrete, installed packages. |
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- Perl packages never have more than 1:1 source archives per ebuild |
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- Perl upstream naming doesn't habitually use "perl-" as an archive prefix |
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- Everything that is packaged for Perl in Gentoo is mirrored to the |
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Gentoo distfiles mirror, and this causes no issues. |
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So I don't think any comparison here makes sense. |
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