Someone should take a look at what FreeBSD did with BSDPAN and see if we
can include it with our pkgsrc version.

From what I've seen, if you use CPAN to install a module, it will register
that module with the pkg system.

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Martin J. Laubach wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:17:12 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@maschndrohtzaun.emsi.priv.at>
> To: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> Newsgroups: emsi.netbsd.tech.pkg
> Subject: Re: registering p5-xxx packages installed via CPAN
>
> |  Obvious example is libnet, if you initialize the CPAN stuff, it installs
> |  libnet.
>
>   The CPAN stuff and pkgsrc are conflicting package managing systems.
> If you use pkgsrc, don't use CPAN or vice versa.
>
> |  What is the best practice, here ? Reinstall via pkgsrc, possibly
> |  overwriting a newer version, breaking a dependance in CPAN ?
>
>   Updating or creating a pkg would be the most useful step here
> I guess :-)
>
> 	mjl
>
>

Elfin