From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 28 13:12:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13628 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13583; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA14443; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:11:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:11:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199808282011.QAA14443@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Ollivier Robert Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: p5-* ports In-Reply-To: <19980828212756.A26309@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <199808281805.UAA05614@gratis.grondar.za> <19980828212756.A26309@keltia.freenix.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > According to Mark Murray: >> I am looking at the possibilities of SPAN.pm replacing the _entire_ >> */p5-* port collection. It is _very_ powerful. > Be aware that CPAN doesn't solve the dependencies between packages. During > build you'll see that a few are missing (A require B and so on) but it > won't get them for you. > I use CPAN a lot but it is not a miracle. And it doesn't provide for the ``convenience value'' of the port/package interface. -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-ports" in the body of the message