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From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: New collection for ports - perl ?
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> > > I'm not sure it is interesting as it would duplicate something already
> > > present in the Perl mechanisms (MakeMaker and al) and would only be a
> > > wrapper around

> 2. Help track the  hideous dependancies that Perl modules have on each
> other

Agreed!  On a recient install of a Perl module, I had to go find and
fetch 3 others.  I didn't know these dependancies until ``perl
Makefile.PL'' bombed each time.  The FBSD ports system would handle the
dependancies very well.

> 3. Make uninstallation a snap, something that the MakeMaker package in
> perl does not do.

Agreed.

 -- David