Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:11:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: p5-* ports Message-ID: <199808282011.QAA14443@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980828212756.A26309@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <199808281805.UAA05614@gratis.grondar.za> <19980828212756.A26309@keltia.freenix.fr>
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<<On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 21:27:56 +0200, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> said: > According to Mark Murray: >> I am looking at the possibilities of SPAN.pm replacing the _entire_ >> */p5-* port collection. It is _very_ powerful. > Be aware that CPAN doesn't solve the dependencies between packages. During > build you'll see that a few are missing (A require B and so on) but it > won't get them for you. > I use CPAN a lot but it is not a miracle. And it doesn't provide for the ``convenience value'' of the port/package interface. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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