Hi,
I'd like to move perl-cpanplus and perl-cpanplus-dist-arch to community so users can install software from cpan easily without bypassing pacman.
I'm not sure whether this is a problem or not because cpanplus automates the installation of software from a possibly untrusted source. It uses the metadata from CPAN to generate a PKGBUILD and runs makepkg -i on that.
More information about perl-cpanplus-dist-arch can be found here: https://github.com/juster/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch/blob/master/README
2011/7/1 Florian Pritz bluewind@xinu.at:
Hi,
I'd like to move perl-cpanplus and perl-cpanplus-dist-arch to community so users can install software from cpan easily without bypassing pacman.
+1
I'm not sure whether this is a problem or not because cpanplus automates the installation of software from a possibly untrusted source. It uses the metadata from CPAN to generate a PKGBUILD and runs makepkg -i on that.
Well packages will be downloaded from cpan, and users should be aware that they have to compile them after make the src.tar.gz, and then install it.
So +1 in general.
More information about perl-cpanplus-dist-arch can be found here: https://github.com/juster/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch/blob/master/README
-- Florian Pritz
Hi,
I'd like to move perl-cpanplus and perl-cpanplus-dist-arch to community so users can install software from cpan easily without bypassing pacman.
I'm not sure whether this is a problem or not because cpanplus automates the installation of software from a possibly untrusted source. It uses the metadata from CPAN to generate a PKGBUILD and runs makepkg -i on that.
More information about perl-cpanplus-dist-arch can be found here: https://github.com/juster/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch/blob/master/README
I'm for it! But, if I understand well, 'perl-cpanplus' [1] functionality is now in core. So it can be just deleted.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33402
On 01.07.2011 20:30, Anton Leontiev wrote:
But, if I understand well, 'perl-cpanplus' [1] functionality is now in core. So it can be just deleted.
The version bundled with perl is 0.9103, but there is 0.9105 so if that contains an important bugfix you can install it and overwrite the included one.
I agree that we don't need to move this package though, but it should be kept in AUR. Thanks for the hint.
В Пт., 01/07/2011 в 21:20 +0200, Florian Pritz пишет:
On 01.07.2011 20:30, Anton Leontiev wrote:
But, if I understand well, 'perl-cpanplus' [1] functionality is now in core. So it can be just deleted.
The version bundled with perl is 0.9103, but there is 0.9105 so if that contains an important bugfix you can install it and overwrite the included one.
This AUR package is very outdated (version 0.9007) and have no maintainer. Personally I don't like packages that duplicate Perl's core functionality in AUR, especially now when 'perl' have no 'provides' array, because they favours someone to add 'perl-something' in dependencies (just because there is such package in AUR) instead of just add 'perl'.
This is just my opinion as a contributor. If you think this package is useful in AUR, please adopt and update it.
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