Bug 53373 – IO::Interface Perl module ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2004-06-08 19:46:16 UTC]

Ebuild for IO::Interface perl module.
Ebuild attached.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2004-06-08 19:48:15 UTC]

Created attachment 32948 [details]
IO-Interface-0.98.ebuild

Ebuild :)

[Comment 2 Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-06-08 20:50:14 UTC]

This module can be installed by using the g-cpan.pl script provided by Gentoo.

# g-cpan.pl IO::Interface

[Comment 3 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 01:27:07 UTC]

Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't it be better to have portage managing the modules?

[Comment 4 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-06-13 12:07:14 UTC]

Modules are only added to portage if they fulfill a dependancy (see policy guidelines on gentoo website). We are not attempting to duplicate cpan - only to include those portions we need to keep track of because they either fulfill dependancies for other packages, offer additional applications, help us to meet a security guideline, or help to bring different installs of perl (5.8.0 and 5.8.2, for instance) up to speed on *core* perl modules. We have enough trouble keeping track of the 480+ modules that we already maintain. Sorry if this harsh, but this policy is in place to avoid modules being lost in the tree.

[Comment 5 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2004-06-13 12:07:51 UTC]

Forgot to add - if this module fulfills a dependancy, please reopen this bug and identify that package that is missing this support. Thanks :)