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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:43:01 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: p5-* ports 
Message-ID:  <199808282043.WAA06394@gratis.grondar.za>

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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> 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.

... but it will clean up the makefile system a _lot_, and allow us to
throw out just about everything except dependancies, no?

M
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