Cabal and installing packages.

[Gabriel Ebner]

Keean Schupke <k.schupke at imperial.ac.uk> writes:

> I find that debian/gentoo etc do not have all the packages available
> for say perl, and it is nice to have a consistant interface on any 
> platform...

In such cases I think it's better to provide a way to make native
packages.  E.g. if you want to install some obscure perl module under
gentoo, you can just type in g-cpan.pl Some::Obscure::Module, and
after a few minutes a bunch of proper native packages will have been
installed.

The best thing about g-cpan.pl is that it uses existing packages if
possible.  So if e.g. dev-perl/LibXML has been patched to work with
gcc-3.4 and the package you want to install depends on LibXML, you
couldn't install it using CPAN but you could using g-cpan.pl.

         Gabriel.
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