[Buildroot] [pkg-perl infra V5 8/8] cpanminus: remove it

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear François Perrad,

On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:18:08 +0100, François Perrad wrote:
> 2014-02-07 21:50 GMT+01:00 Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>:
> > Hi François,
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Francois Perrad <fperrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> cpanminus was marked as broken, now it becomes useless with the Perl infrastructure.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
> >> ---
> >>  package/Config.in              |    1 -
> >>  package/cpanminus/Config.in    |   40 ----------------------------------
> >>  package/cpanminus/cpanminus.mk |   47 ----------------------------------------
> >>  3 files changed, 88 deletions(-)
> >>  delete mode 100644 package/cpanminus/Config.in
> >>  delete mode 100644 package/cpanminus/cpanminus.mk
> >>
> >
> > Shouldn't we add an entry in Config.in.legacy for the removed symbol?
> >
> 
> Perhaps, we could do an exception.
> The log of package/cpanminus/Config.in contains only 2 entries :
> *     cpanminus: mark as broken    Thomas Petazzoni    2012-11-16
> *     cpanminus: new package    Francois Perrad    2012-11-03

I agree with François. cpanminus was marked as broken very quickly
after it was introduced, and broken packages cannot be selected in
menuconfig. cpanminus has never been selectable in any Buildroot
stable release, so there is no need to keep compatibility.

Thomas
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