Bug 34709 – new ebuild dev-perl/String-Similarity-0.02 (CPAN modul)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nicolai Lissner 2003-11-29 10:00:16 UTC]

This is just a new ebuild for the CPAN-module String::Similarity

[Comment 1 Nicolai Lissner 2003-11-29 10:01:51 UTC]

Created attachment 21476 [details]
ebuild for dev-perl/String-Similarity

[Comment 2 Robert Coie (RETIRED) 2003-12-22 16:26:44 UTC]

g-cpan.pl String::Similarity installs this fine.

[Comment 3 Nicolai Lissner 2003-12-23 06:44:54 UTC]

true... but that is true for ANY cpan-module. 

but if you do it that way, portage gets not informed about the new installed perl-module.

I wonder why portage developers create a nice function "inherit perl-module"
and ebuilds using this function are refused with *that* comment.

Sure - you can install a whole linux system manually. 

But it's not gentoo then, is it?

Nevermind.

[Comment 4 Eric Sammer (RETIRED) 2004-01-16 01:06:57 UTC]

Nicolai:

When you install a module with g-cpan.pl it generates an ebuild for the module on the fly and installs it so portage *does* know about it. Please use g-cpan.pl for this.

If it will help, the reason Gentoo has a policy about adding perl modules to the portage tree is because it greatly increases the size of the tree which *everyone* has to download. If we added every perl module on CPAN to the tree, it would be huge. Also, it would greatly add to the amount of maintenance and overhead taking time away from other bugs and projects. All perl modules that are in portage are there because they are the dependency of another package or provide utilities.

If you try g-cpan.pl I'm quite sure you'll find it does the job and does so in a "Gentoo-like" way.

[Comment 5 Nicolai Lissner 2004-01-17 20:40:28 UTC]

Thank you very much for the clearance. 
I have learned something new.