3 Dec
2004
3 Dec
'04
5:55 p.m.
Keean Schupke
I find that debian/gentoo etc do not have all the packages available for say perl, and it is nice to have a consistant interface on any platform...
In such cases I think it's better to provide a way to make native packages. E.g. if you want to install some obscure perl module under gentoo, you can just type in g-cpan.pl Some::Obscure::Module, and after a few minutes a bunch of proper native packages will have been installed. The best thing about g-cpan.pl is that it uses existing packages if possible. So if e.g. dev-perl/LibXML has been patched to work with gcc-3.4 and the package you want to install depends on LibXML, you couldn't install it using CPAN but you could using g-cpan.pl. Gabriel.