diff -Nuar g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/ChangeLog g-cpan-0.15.0/ChangeLog
--- g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/ChangeLog	2007-04-24 17:06:19.000000000 -0700
+++ g-cpan-0.15.0/ChangeLog	2008-09-30 21:17:14.304101792 -0700
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # ChangeLog for g-cpan
 # Copyright 2002-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
+  
+  30 Sep 2008; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> bin/g-cpan,
+  lib/Gentoo/CPAN.pm, lib/Gentoo/Portage.pm:
+  If there is no DESCRIPTION set by the CPAN data, extract it from the POD
+  manpage after unpacking. Use MODULE_AUTHOR and optionally MODULE_SECTION to
+  generate slimmer ebuilds. This will allow the eclass to populate HOMEPAGE and
+  SRC_URI easily.
+
+  30 Sep 2008; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> lib/Gentoo/CPAN.pm:
+  Generate MyConfig.pm without extra quotes in urllist, as this breaks newer
+  libwww-perl.
 
   05 Apr 2007; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> ChangeLog:
   Quick fix for search results of 0
diff -Nuar g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/bin/g-cpan g-cpan-0.15.0/bin/g-cpan
--- g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/bin/g-cpan	2007-04-24 17:07:19.000000000 -0700
+++ g-cpan-0.15.0/bin/g-cpan	2008-09-30 21:08:47.500918554 -0700
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 use Log::Agent::Driver::File;
 use Log::Agent::Driver::Silent;
 
-our $VERSION = "0.15.0";
+our $VERSION = "0.16.0";
 my $prog = basename($0);
 
 ##### Establish our tmpdir
@@ -598,6 +598,8 @@
             # Let's unpack it and get all the deps out of it.
             spinner_start();
             $gcpan_run->unpackModule($gcpan_run->{cpan}{lc($original_ebuild)}{name});
+            # Force re-compute of the information, as MANPAGE is now valid.
+            $gcpan_run->getCPANInfo($original_ebuild);
             spinner_stop();
 
             foreach my $dep (keys %{$gcpan_run->{cpan}{lc($original_ebuild)}{depends}})
@@ -664,19 +666,27 @@
                         print_info('Generating ebuild for ' . $gcpan_run->{cpan}{lc($original_ebuild)}{name});
                         my $EBUILD = IO::File->new($ebuild, '>')
                           or fatal(print_err("Couldn't open(write) file $ebuild: $!"));
+                        my $module_author = $gcpan_run->{'cpan'}{lc($original_ebuild)}{'src_uri'};
+                        $module_author =~ s/.\/..\/(.*)\/[^\/]+$/$1/g;
+                        my $module_section = '';
+                        if($module_author =~ /\//) {
+                            $module_section = $module_author;
+                            my @module_bits = split /\//, $module_author, 2;
+                            $module_author = $module_bits[0];
+                            $module_section = sprintf "MODULE_SECTION=\"%s\"\n", $module_bits[1];
+                        }
+                        my $description = $gcpan_run->{'cpan'}{lc($original_ebuild)}{'description'};
+
                         print $EBUILD <<"HERE";
 # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # This ebuild generated by $prog $VERSION
 
+MODULE_AUTHOR="$module_author"
+$module_section
 inherit perl-module
 
-S=\${WORKDIR}/$gcpan_run->{'cpan'}{lc($original_ebuild)}{'portage_sdir'}
-
-DESCRIPTION="$gcpan_run->{'cpan'}{lc($original_ebuild)}{'description'}"
-HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=$gcpan_run->{cpan}{lc($original_ebuild)}{portage_name}\&mode=dist"
-SRC_URI="mirror://cpan/authors/id/$gcpan_run->{'cpan'}{lc($original_ebuild)}{'src_uri'}"
-
+DESCRIPTION="$description"
 
 IUSE=""
 
diff -Nuar g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/lib/Gentoo/CPAN.pm g-cpan-0.15.0/lib/Gentoo/CPAN.pm
--- g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/lib/Gentoo/CPAN.pm	2007-04-24 17:06:19.000000000 -0700
+++ g-cpan-0.15.0/lib/Gentoo/CPAN.pm	2008-09-30 21:09:24.315814196 -0700
@@ -133,8 +133,21 @@
 #   missing a lot of our ebuilds/packages >
 # Addendum. Appears we are missing items both ways - have to test both the name in cpan_file and the mod->id. :/
     next unless ( $mod->id );
+    # manpage_headline spews a bunch of warnings, and is not always valid.
+    # If this is a # CPAN::Bundle, manual work is needed anyway.
+    sub manpage_title {
+        my $mod = shift;
+		# Force the calculation of contents.
+		$mod->as_string();
+        my $module_name = shift;
+        my $desc = $mod->{MANPAGE};
+		return $desc unless $desc;
+		return $desc unless $module_name;
+        $desc =~ s/^$module_name - //g;
+        return $desc;
+    }
     $self->{'cpan'}{ lc($find_module) }{'description'} =
-      $mod->{RO}{'description'} || "No description available";
+      $mod->{RO}{'description'} || manpage_title($mod, $find_module) || "No description available";
     $self->{'cpan'}{ lc($find_module) }{'src_uri'} = $mod->{RO}{'CPAN_FILE'};
     $self->{'cpan'}{ lc($find_module) }{'name'}    = $mod->id;
     $self->{'cpan'}{ lc($find_module) }{'version'} = $mod->{RO}{'CPAN_VERSION'}
@@ -169,7 +182,9 @@
     }
 
     # Grab the tarball and unpack it
-    $pack->get or die "Insufficient permissions!";
+    unless (defined($pack->{build_dir})) {
+        $pack->get or die "Insufficient permissions!";
+    }
     my $tmp_dir = $pack->{build_dir};
 
     # Set our starting point
@@ -553,7 +568,7 @@
   'tar' => q[$tar_prog],
   'term_is_latin' => q[1],
   'unzip' => q[$unzip_prog],
-  'urllist' => [qw["http://search.cpan.org/CPAN" "http://www.cpan.org/pub/CPAN" ],],
+  'urllist' => [qw[http://search.cpan.org/CPAN http://www.cpan.org/pub/CPAN ],],
   'wget' => q[$wget_prog],
 };
 1;
diff -Nuar g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/lib/Gentoo/Portage.pm g-cpan-0.15.0/lib/Gentoo/Portage.pm
--- g-cpan-0.15.0.orig/lib/Gentoo/Portage.pm	2007-04-24 17:06:19.000000000 -0700
+++ g-cpan-0.15.0/lib/Gentoo/Portage.pm	2008-09-30 16:59:23.012076447 -0700
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 
 sub strip_env {
     my $key = shift;
+    return $key unless defined($key);
     if (defined($ENV{$key})) {
         $ENV{$key} =~ s{\\n}{ }gxms;
         $ENV{$key} =~ s{\\|\'|\\'|\$|\s*$}{}gmxs;