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 > <[email protected]>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.
