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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working
From:       J Robert Ray <jrray () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-01-30 0:01:09
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Tony Clark wrote:
| On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09.26, J Robert Ray wrote:
| 14679 posted.
|
|>Thanks.  Consider using CPAN to install this module in the meantime.
|
| This is not really the point, a number of new apps are all held up
because of
| the new perl dependency management _MAYBE_ tool :(  Don't get me
wrong, I'm
| all for it when it works, in the meantime life should go on and new
things
| should be put in dev-perl and new applications should be available.  Then
| again, I guess Gentoo could just solve the problem and become another
faster
| Debian.  The current situtation really sucks IMHO.

Please bear with us, a more robust solution will be implemented.  The
one thing we don't want to do is make ebuilds for every perl module in
CPAN.  In this case we may add an ebuild to the tree to install the
package that g-cpan can't handle.

- - Robert


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