[aur-general] [RFC] Inclusion of CPANPLUS in community

Anton Leontiev bunder at t-25.ru
Fri Jul 1 14:30:44 EDT 2011


> 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

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Anton Leontiev <bunder at t-25.ru>



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