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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:24:45 -0800
From:      "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To:        "'Adam Weinberger'" <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <knu@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20021103
Message-ID:  <000101c2aef2$3c96f540$6401a8c0@VAIO650>
In-Reply-To: <20021228134702.GE215@vectors.cx>

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Adam wrote:
> Bear in mind that this topic has been discussed many, many 
> times. The overall concensus was that the current way is the 
> best way.

Thanks for the info. I googled for details before posting, but didn't
find much.

> CPAN installs into non-standard locations, and 
> maintains databases that are completely and totally separate 
> from that of the ports system. The best thing to do is to 
> install perl modules from the ports tree.

Guess I'll have to figure out how to uninstall my CPAN modules and
replace them with FreeBSD ports.

Thanks,
--Lucky


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