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From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>
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To: mark@grondar.za, asami@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Perl5 & CPAN & pkg commands
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> From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
> 
> Satoshi Asami wrote:
> > In that case, we can put it in BSD.local.dist, but this stuff really
> > doesn't belong there.  I'm getting really tired of this, can we just
> > delete all the p5-* ports and have people use CPAN or whatever they
> > want?
> 
> I think this is the way to go. CPAN has one problem - it cannot uninstall
> a module (AFAIK). Do you really want to do this for 3.0/2.2.8? :-)

Just curious. Would it be possible to modify CPAN.pm to add dummy entries
that would work with the pkg_* commands?

Thanks,
-SR


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