From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 29 00:18:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA24464 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:18:36 -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 AAA24442; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 00:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:QkzE6tZWec49nHKcmaskYiZQ/Jrt/mBD@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA00940; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:17:29 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199808290717.JAA00940@gratis.grondar.za> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: p5-* ports Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:17:27 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > * I use CPAN a lot but it is not a miracle. > > Can someone tell me how this works? The easiest way is (at your shell command line): $ perl -MCPAN -e shell and follow the instructions (or ? for help). Perl can fetch/update its own bits, and is reasonably clever about doing this. There is no mechanism for automatically sorting out dependancies. It cannot _remove_ a package, but there is a .packinglist(?) file installed with each one that could be used to construct a tool to do this. > Also, are you guys (some of you anyway) suggesting to remove all the > p5-* ports from the tree? (That's going to make the ports tree shrink > by almost 100, but given the recent mess I'm not sure if I'll shed any > tears. ;) I'd love to. ;-) 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