From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 16 7:43:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DA537B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:43:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA59453; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:41:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:41:18 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200103161541.KAA59453@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: joe@tao.org.uk Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 merged soon? In-Reply-To: <20010316133159.F2277@tao.org.uk> References: <20010315080445.A57062@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20010315095551E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010315121201.E54243@rand.tgd.net> <20010316004820.C4241@tao.org.uk> <200103160125.UAA53492@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010316133159.F2277@tao.org.uk> you write: >That's what the new BSDPAN code is all about. Making CPAN installs >accounted for in the system. ``Accounted for'' is not particularly useful to me. I don't use CPAN.pm anyway. I know what most if not all of the modules are. The problem is being required to figure out the dependency graph, recompile all of the modules in the right order, and then test all of my applications to ensure that they haven't been broken (because invariably, the module that I originally installed will have been superseded). This is, to my mind, very much contrary to the spirit of ``stable''. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message