Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:40:45 +0100 From: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD Message-ID: <471FBBDD.6000307@thingy.com> In-Reply-To: <20071024171040.F81E.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> References: <471F767C.9090007@enabled.com> <471F8AE5.1000504@calarts.edu> <20071024171040.F81E.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
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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
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