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Date:      Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:27:30 +0200
From:      "arved@freebsd.org" <arved@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        snowcrash+freebsd <schneecrash+freebsd@gmail.com>, perl@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/115885: misc/help2man: help2man ignores installed gettext perl mod; insists on stale p5-* dependency
Message-ID:  <20070902172729.GD59826@arved.priv.at>
In-Reply-To: <70f41ba20709020946k7e5d3c55xba93f379bc8723a3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200709021440.l82Ee9Cb001675@freefall.freebsd.org> <70f41ba20709020946k7e5d3c55xba93f379bc8723a3@mail.gmail.com>

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* snowcrash+freebsd [2007-09-02 19:11]:
> > It is not supported to mix FreeBSD ports collection perl modules
> > with modules installed from CPAN.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115885
> >
> I'm not "mixing" anything.  I have *NO* FreeBSD ports collection perl
> modules installed, at all.
> 
> I *only* have CPAN modules installed.  gettext is installed on my
> system via CPAN.
> 
> I am trying to get help2man to work with a CPAN-only installation.
> 
> It does not.  *IT* is trying to "mix" a port-perl-module, not me.

You have perl modules installed, that have no corresponding installed
FreeBSD port. There once was a project called BSDPAN that AFAIK was
written to work around this problem, but i don't know what the status is
(CCing perl). 

regards tilman



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