Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 04:12:27 GMT From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: paul@demon.co.UK (Paul Richards) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl5 modules Message-ID: <199702260412.EAA07531@veda.is> References: <87914htuw1.fsf@originat.demon.co.uk>
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>Can we *PLEASE* rethink how this is done in ports. A lot of Perl >programmers complained at the time this was wrong and I'm complaining >again. It also sucks badly that there are a great many ports scattered all over the place with names matching p5-* Why not simply bundle them all together in ports/pl/ and of course strip p5- from the names. (ports/p5/ if preferred) >The only argument I heard in favour of the current scheme was that if >some hacker was looking for a package to do something, say web >related, then they'd probably go and look in www. That can be done with categories. >It would be so much easier if "real" perl programmers could go to >/usr/ports/lang/perl_cpan/ and see immediately if the package they >want is part of the ports collection or not. Someone decreed that having a 2-deep hierarchy is a useful convenience, and the third level would interfere with that. -- Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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