Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:45:51 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?TWFya28gQ3VwYcSH?= <marko.cupac@mimar.rs> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster WITH_PKGNG and cpan Message-ID: <51E7F18F.80804@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130718145930.48bbc5fa01b351756e034868@mimar.rs> References: <20130718121656.fdfbe527fe0a201dcc2658b3@mimar.rs> <51E7E3AD.5020408@freebsd.org> <20130718145930.48bbc5fa01b351756e034868@mimar.rs>
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On 18/07/2013 13:59, Marko Cupać wrote: > If I remember well, I had all the ports installed back in days of pkg_tools, > and converted pkg_* database to pkg with pkg2ng. Do you say that, if I had pkg > from the start, it wouldn't even register in the pkg database? Correct. > If so, how > are people supposed to keep track of installed cpan modules in pkg era? With some difficulty. This is an important missing chunk of functionality. For most reasonably popular perl modules there will be a version in ports, and people are recommended to use that in preference to installing direct from CPAN. Cheers, Matthew
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