From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 4 0:12:25 2001 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 00:12:24 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE5A37B402; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14E5VO-0001E2-00; Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:12:14 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id KAA11273; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:12:13 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 10951; Thu Jan 4 10:10:13 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14E5TP-000Cm4-00; Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:10:11 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Will Andrews , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:56:32 +0200." <20010104095631.A69692@mithrandr.moria.org> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:10:11 +0200 Message-ID: <49107.978595811@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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