Inclusion of CPANPLUS in community
 

Hi,

I'd like to move perl-cpanplus and perl-cpanplus-dist-arch to community
so users can install software from cpan easily without bypassing pacman.

I'm not sure whether this is a problem or not because cpanplus automates
the installation of software from a possibly untrusted source. It uses
the metadata from CPAN to generate a PKGBUILD and runs makepkg -i on that.

More information about perl-cpanplus-dist-arch can be found here:
https://github.com/juster/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch/blob/master/README

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Florian Pritz

Inclusion of CPANPLUS in community
 

2011/7/1 Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to move perl-cpanplus and perl-cpanplus-dist-arch to community
> so users can install software from cpan easily without bypassing pacman.

+1

>
> I'm not sure whether this is a problem or not because cpanplus automates
> the installation of software from a possibly untrusted source. It uses
> the metadata from CPAN to generate a PKGBUILD and runs makepkg -i on that.

Well packages will be downloaded from cpan, and users should be aware
that they have to compile them after make the src.tar.gz, and then
install it.

So +1 in general.

>
> More information about perl-cpanplus-dist-arch can be found here:
> https://github.com/juster/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch/blob/master/README
>
> --
> Florian Pritz
>
>


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Inclusion of CPANPLUS in community
 

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to move perl-cpanplus and perl-cpanplus-dist-arch to community
> so users can install software from cpan easily without bypassing pacman.
>
> I'm not sure whether this is a problem or not because cpanplus automates
> the installation of software from a possibly untrusted source. It uses
> the metadata from CPAN to generate a PKGBUILD and runs makepkg -i on that.
>
> More information about perl-cpanplus-dist-arch can be found here:
> https://github.com/juster/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch/blob/master/README

I'm for it!
But, if I understand well, 'perl-cpanplus' [1] functionality is now in
core. So it can be just deleted.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33402

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Anton Leontiev <bunder@t-25.ru>

Inclusion of CPANPLUS in community
 

On 01.07.2011 20:30, Anton Leontiev wrote:
> But, if I understand well, 'perl-cpanplus' [1] functionality is now in
> core. So it can be just deleted.
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33402

The version bundled with perl is 0.9103, but there is 0.9105 so if that
contains an important bugfix you can install it and overwrite the
included one.

I agree that we don't need to move this package though, but it should be
kept in AUR. Thanks for the hint.

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Florian Pritz

Inclusion of CPANPLUS in community
 

В Пт., 01/07/2011 в 21:20 +0200, Florian Pritz пишет:
> On 01.07.2011 20:30, Anton Leontiev wrote:
> > But, if I understand well, 'perl-cpanplus' [1] functionality is now in
> > core. So it can be just deleted.
> >
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33402
>
> The version bundled with perl is 0.9103, but there is 0.9105 so if that
> contains an important bugfix you can install it and overwrite the
> included one.

This AUR package is very outdated (version 0.9007) and have no
maintainer. Personally I don't like packages that duplicate Perl's core
functionality in AUR, especially now when 'perl' have no 'provides'
array, because they favours someone to add 'perl-something' in
dependencies (just because there is such package in AUR) instead of just
add 'perl'.

This is just my opinion as a contributor. If you think this package is
useful in AUR, please adopt and update it.

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Anton Leontiev <bunder@t-25.ru>