Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 12:23:44 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Will Andrews <will@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <20010104122344.A22836@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <49107.978595811@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:10:11AM %2B0200 References: <20010104095631.A69692@mithrandr.moria.org> <49107.978595811@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:10:11AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 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. :-) Last, but not least: modules installed from CPAN cannot be deinstalled. +Anton. -- May the tuna salad be with you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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