Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:34:35 -0700 From: "Aliya Harbouri" <aliyaharbouri@gmail.com> To: "Howard Jones" <howie@thingy.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD Message-ID: <dec0591d0710241534p43111b92v2895f7e4255557b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <471FBBDD.6000307@thingy.com> References: <471F767C.9090007@enabled.com> <471F8AE5.1000504@calarts.edu> <20071024171040.F81E.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> <471FBBDD.6000307@thingy.com>
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Hi Howie, > What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better > solution? Does it somehow integrate with the ports better? (rather than > getting conflicts between p5-* and bsdpan-*) > > I use quite a lot of CPAN modules, so a way to be able to get 'obscure' > modules, and still use portupgrade effectively would be good :-) It's been made pretty clear to me by a number of folks that p5* ports have "no responsibility" for keeping track of dependencies/conflicts/whatever with NON p5*- installed modules. I'm sure there are a lot of really experienced folks around here who have NO problems with p5*-based systems. For me, though, I can only say that I never quite figured out how to make those annoying, not-infrequent conflicts go away -- EXECPT to move to a "vanilla" CPAN/CPANPLUS (doesn't much matter, actually -- *these* two *do* play nice together) system. Once I removed/replaced all the FreeBSD BSDPAN- & p5- installed modules, all my conflicts have gone away. As "they" say, YMMV. HTH! Ali
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