Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:10:11 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules 
Message-ID:  <49107.978595811@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:56:32 %2B0200." <20010104095631.A69692@mithrandr.moria.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:56:32 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

> > I'm of the opinion that we should use the CPAN module itself to manage
> > Perl packages, rather than the ports system.
> 
> I think the ability to provide packages for these things is useful, and
> to generate packages one (almost always) need ports.  And the end result
> is the same in any case, except the tarballs may be auto-mirrored by
> your friendly network FreeBSD distfiles archive.

Sound arguments.  Time to change my opinion. :-)

Thanks,
Sheldon.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?49107.978595811>