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* Re: [gentoo-user] g-cpan not pulling in the correct depencies
  @ 2009-06-17 13:07 99%   ` Grant
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From: Grant @ 2009-06-17 13:07 UTC (permalink / raw
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>> I'm trying to use g-cpan to pull in Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~MIKEH/Bundle-InterchangeKitchenSink/InterchangeKitchenSink.pm
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>> 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.
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> So, perhaps you could just install the pieces you need? I don't think portage will ever be able to handle CPAN 'bundles'.
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> 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.
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> 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



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