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Date:      Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:17:27 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: p5-* ports 
Message-ID:  <199808290717.JAA00940@gratis.grondar.za>

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>  * I use CPAN a lot but it is not a miracle.
> 
> Can someone tell me how this works?

The easiest way is (at your shell command line):

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

and follow the instructions (or ? for help). Perl can fetch/update
its own bits, and is reasonably clever about doing this. There is no
mechanism for automatically sorting out dependancies.

It cannot _remove_ a package, but there is a .packinglist(?) file
installed with each one that could be used to construct a tool to do
this.

> Also, are you guys (some of you anyway) suggesting to remove all the
> p5-* ports from the tree?  (That's going to make the ports tree shrink
> by almost 100, but given the recent mess I'm not sure if I'll shed any
> tears. ;)

I'd love to. ;-)

M
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