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

François Perrad francois.perrad at gadz.org
Fri Sep 21 18:25:14 UTC 2012


2012/9/20 Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>:
> 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.
>

Perl is useless without a CPAN client.
The Perl packages are fine grained (compared to Python or Ruby ones),
for example the web framework Dancer (without any plugins) requires 22
dependencies (direct or indirect).
Debian has more then thousand Perl packages; I don't want to do the same thing.

Most of CPAN packages haven't a license file; usually the
documentation contains an information, like : "LICENSE - same as Perl
itself".

The reproductibility of a project (with an identified version of each
CPAN module) could be done with a local CPAN mirror.

François

>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
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