>> I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm >> >> but the list of dependencies is way off. Is g-cpan just broken? > > That's about it, yes. (I think the way perl is handled in Gentoo is in > serious need of review.) > > Of course, what you are trying to install, to be fair, isn't exactly trivial > and g-cpan does trivial well enough... usually. > > So, perhaps you could just install the pieces you need? I don't think portage > will ever be able to handle CPAN 'bundles'. > > Just gcpan -g for each item in the package from a shell script. Maybe it will > work once you have an ebuild for each needed module, or you can see which one > is just way off... and edit to work. > > You do have the ("perl-experimental") overlay?
Thanks Michael. I don't have that overlay. What would it do for me? An improved g-cpan? - Grant
