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Hello! |
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Just getting settled with Gentoo, happy so far. |
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I was a little confused to learn of the existence of the g-cpan module, even |
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at the presence of perl modules in Portage itself. g-cpan is supposed to be |
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a Portage wrapper for plain cpan? If I use g-cpan to install a module, will |
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it use the ebuild, if one exists? Is there anything wrong with using plain |
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cpan? (It would bother me if there was not agreement between my local |
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Portage tree and what is actually installed on my system.) I guess I am just |
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feeling that someone tried to fix something that wasn't broken. |
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Furthermore, I was unable to emerge perl-gcpan/Bundle-CPAN, because it |
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depends upon virtual/perl-IO-Compress, which is hardmasked for reasons |
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unclear to me. This seems silly. Is this bug worthy? |
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Okay before sending this mail I was able to emerge a module without an |
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ebuild and see that it ends up in my local overlay. This is cool. I also saw |
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some perl-IO-Compress-* modules get built, so my guess on the hardmask is |
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that the name IO-Compress is just obsolete, and that module is actually just |
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broken in pieces, and Bundle-CPAN hasn't had its dependencies updated. |