Re: complex perl packages and dependencies

[brook%biology.nmsu.edu@localhost (Brook Milligan)]

Benny,

Benny Siegert writes:
 > For things that are packaged via CPAN, I wrote a script I called
 > "cpan2port" for a different ports tree (MirPorts), which tracks down
 > dependencies and creates a package for each one semi-automatically,
 > calling itself recursively if needed. I made a presentation about it
 > on FOSDEM (see http://slideshare.net/bsiegert/). I could adapt it for
 > pkgsrc if you are interested.

I think that would be really great.  If you don't have commit access,
I'm glad to work with you to test it and import it into pkgsrc
(perhaps renamed as pkgtools/cpan2pkg?).

Cheers,
Brook