From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 28 13:44:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18156 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:44:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18130; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:Ko0quHVEFbzEf12tyXDcIrIig7dW+ciL@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA06394; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:43:04 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199808282043.WAA06394@gratis.grondar.za> To: Ollivier Robert cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: p5-* ports Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:43:01 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message