On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, J. W. Birdsong < jwbirds...@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 > > > <hollun...@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 :)