From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 3 23:56:39 2001 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 23:56:38 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED63937B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:56:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 71324 invoked by uid 1003); 4 Jan 2001 07:56:32 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:56:32 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Will Andrews , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <20010104095631.A69692@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200101040011.f040B6i84505@freefall.freebsd.org> <48379.978593627@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <48379.978593627@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:33:47AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2001-01-04 (09:33), Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Modified files: > > . modules > > Log: > > Finish my four-day attempt to nearly sync with CPAN. I think I'm > > gonna get off my computer for awhile.. > > Are you sure this is the right approach? > > 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. (I tend to use ports over CPAN where possible, actually.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message