On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:21:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I thought it already did. I am puttint XMLTV on mine, and it put on
> XML::Twig and a lot of other ones. While it was emerging, it looked like
> it was running perl. I might be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time.
> <grin>
AFAIK, emerge currently just emerges already setup perl modules, from the
dev-perl/ section.
While they are named equivalently to, and built on the CPAN modules, they
aren't built from CPAN "live", like the dh-make-perl for Debian does.
Also, as not every CPAN module has an ebuild available on the portage
tree, you're limited to those that are already configured, and if you're
unable to configure your own you're kinda screwed.
I'm looking into that g-cpan.pl thing that Heschi Kreinick mentioned
in the other reply to my question, maybe that'll do what I'm looking for.
I found it a VERY useful part of debian, because I'd never have to worry
about my CPAN installs and my apt installs stepping on each other's toes,
they were effectivly merged into one system, and would work together very
well.
Here is a forum message talking about it, but it says:
"There was a tool in Gentoo called g-cpan.pl that was great at getting this started,
but never really got anywhere."
http://forums.zynot.org/viewtopic.php?t=245
I didn't realise it was included as part of the distro itself, actually.
*blush*
I'm testing it out to see how it works. I hope whatever processes that
are keeping it out of the mainstream lighten up, a tool like this needs to
be on display, cause it's awesome!
Hrm, I see some issues with it, if an ebuild already exists it just tells
you it exists, it doesn't install it for you. It also doesn't update existing
ebuilds, like the CPAN module itself. The CPAN interface tells me a newer
version exists on CPAN, but g-cpan just says:
"Module already installed for 'CPAN'"
I'll keep doing my experiments with it, at least I can use it to install
non-ebuilded PERL modules. Thanks for bringing this to my attention,
Heschi!
Thanks!
Adam
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