[aur-general] [UPDATE] Perl packing guidelines discussion

[Xyne]

> I'm still fairly new to Arch and various package building strategies but 
> the perl stuff looks interesting. I would like to build some perl 
> packages in the near future so hope to keep up with the pacpan 
> developments. I like what CPAN does but one thing I don't like about 
> using the CPAN module to build/install modules is there seems to be no 
> way to quickly uninstall or remove a package that is no longer needed. 
> That's where the Arch packager comes in really handy.
> 
> I'm not much a forum man so hopefuly some of the traffic may find its 
> way to over here.
> 

I've released the new version of pacpan which provides what I think are
some powerfull tools for CPAN packagers on Arch. Please see the
following:

Pacpan info page:
http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/pacpan

Perl Packaging Guidelines discussion thread
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89752

Perl Packaging Guidelines ticket on the bug tracker
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18113




You may also want to take a look at bauerbill, which has taken over and
improved on pacpan's old ability to install packages from CPAN with
full dependency resolution:
http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/bauerbill