On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 07:45  AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
However, the packages that depend on those fink Perl packages insist
on installing them, and they break if they include anything that might
end up in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin, since those binaries are not
compatible with my /usr/local/bin/perl (5.6 vs 5.8).  I find myself
watching the "fink install" or "fink update-all" carefully, getting
ready to type "sudo rm -rf /sw/lib/perl5/darwin" immediately if
something gets rammed into there.

For the wishlist, I would like a way to say "I'm managing my own perl
installation, thank you".  I'm sure it'd be too messy to require the
html-parser-pm maintainer to also provide a dummy
system-html-parser-pm, so I'm hoping there's a more sane global
solution to that.  Maybe there could be one large "system-perl" that
provides all the perl requirements for every package.  Or maybe
just an entry in the config file.

Perhaps we should move away from providing perl packages entirely-- and name
needed perl modules to be installed. After all, CPAN does allow updates via

If such packages are not installed, perl -MCPAN - e shell could be invoked with a preset level of inactivity.

On the other hand certain perl modules are dependent upon potential fink packages-- various XML modules may depend on expat, Bio:: depends on a number of programs-ace, hmmr, ncbi-tools, etc. To my knowledge, CPAN will not download, package, and install these dependencies.

Jeremy



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