From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 22:34:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D572516A421 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aliyaharbouri@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E92113C4B2 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aliyaharbouri@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so295624wxd for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:34:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=RWSM1a/7q2jL2kHMjNLghGO6SdZDt6KRDrxm/0pcNvQ=; b=erKYo46yKaaav8G+2YPZbrDz1ZuA886EBCyS5CDs2Msfq1y9GN/zhghm84yEP14l/VhMryz71OJ2NslxohWpMrOVO+Sh+HgFPmH2i0zURzA3Whg96j/r+6Hs2lBUpMkEq2C+tZPXJ54XkOKmZpKwhgabraG04R9rdV8ANBWVoBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=feHrB9taqGmXnvrHNhF1q01zbvA7Ctk/43kb9bJYsFhaWAPqSHpZjhejRkT3zYFYT/Zsk/cb98M1L8lTJc34nhl0PT2WmtGHRFb7wYZJP4x5tJ7CyYQQeswJuCWwfEeKRTWHt5EBITeOopoaz/EUkIg+jv2ny6uwVJjJY6V2yQ0= Received: by 10.70.117.3 with SMTP id p3mr1765751wxc.1193265275343; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.71.13 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:34:35 -0700 From: "Aliya Harbouri" To: "Howard Jones" In-Reply-To: <471FBBDD.6000307@thingy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <471F767C.9090007@enabled.com> <471F8AE5.1000504@calarts.edu> <20071024171040.F81E.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> <471FBBDD.6000307@thingy.com> Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:34:45 -0000 Hi Howie, > 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 :-) It's been made pretty clear to me by a number of folks that p5* ports have "no responsibility" for keeping track of dependencies/conflicts/whatever with NON p5*- installed modules. I'm sure there are a lot of really experienced folks around here who have NO problems with p5*-based systems. For me, though, I can only say that I never quite figured out how to make those annoying, not-infrequent conflicts go away -- EXECPT to move to a "vanilla" CPAN/CPANPLUS (doesn't much matter, actually -- *these* two *do* play nice together) system. Once I removed/replaced all the FreeBSD BSDPAN- & p5- installed modules, all my conflicts have gone away. As "they" say, YMMV. HTH! Ali