[aur-general] perl CPAN modules

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, J. W. Birdsong <
jwbirdsong at jwbirdsong.homelinux.com> wrote:

> On 09/29/10 at 12:16am, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-09-28 22:53:45 +0200:
> > > Not sure, didn't know if we had a way to do this, so I thought I would
> bring
> > > it up, kinda thought that it would be interesting to add to AUR if we
> didn't
> > > have something similar.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Philipp Überbacher
> > > <hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-09-28 22:40:10 +0200:
> > > > > I was looking at how Gentoo creates packages and I noticed one
> thing, is
> > > > > that Gentoo, during build, will use CPAN to get the required
> modules for
> > > > the
> > > > > package that is being built. I was thinking, I wonder if this could
> be
> > > > > implemented into AUR?
> > > >
> > > > Is it very different or superior to doing this manually or using
> > > > CPANPLUS? Example:
> > > >
> > > >
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-audio-ecasound/perl-audio-ecasound/PKGBUILD
> >
> > Well, I'm not sure what you mean exactly. I have little experience with
> > perl, but apparently you get sources always from cpan, and what CPANPLUS
> > does is helping you with/automating PKGBUILD writing, dependency
> > resolution and updating, afaik.
> You can also use Bauerbill --cpan
> Just check bauerbill man page.
>

Ah Thanks for the pointes, I was hoping I seen a idea that we could use :)