[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/13] cpanminus: new package v3

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Sep 20 21:35:16 UTC 2012


On 09/20/12 22:04, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hum, do we really want a package which has configuration options that
> allow to select a set of libraries/modules to be downloaded and
> installed? It would be more natural to have those Perl modules properly
> packaged into Buildroot, no? I suspect that they are all packaged
> similarly, so a $(perl-package) infrastructure would work quite well.
>
> This way, we still have the usual package infrastructure for licensing
> report and things like this. I honestly don't know if we want packages
> whose job is in turn to download/install a bunch of other things. It's
> smart, but I'm not sure we want that.

  I'm not sure we want to add 100,000 .mk files either...

  Ideally, the cpanminus module should be able to do the right thing for
the -source, -source-check and -legal-info targets.


  Regards,
  Arnout
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