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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org
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