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Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD
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Gerard wrote:
> On October 24, 2007 at 02:11PM Sean Murphy wrote:
>   
> 2) Use CPANPLUS to install the module.
>
> Unless the user has the time, knowledge and motivation to do the first, the
> second approach is usually superior.
>
>   
What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better 
solution? Does it somehow integrate with the ports better? (rather than 
getting conflicts between p5-* and bsdpan-*)

I use quite a lot of CPAN modules, so a way to be able to get 'obscure' 
modules, and still use portupgrade effectively would be good :-)

Howie