Re: fink

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: fink
Date: 17:57 on 04 Nov 2004
David Champion wrote:
> * On 2004.11.04, in <418A6A66.8020403@xxx.xx>,
> *	"Jarkko Hietaniemi" <jhi@xxx.xx> wrote:
> 
>>All things are relative.  Once you've configured CPAN.pm,
>>you can install A, and it will install the pure Perl dependencies
>>B, C, and D just fine, from remote repositories.  When e.g. something
> 
> 
> Still laughing....
> 
> I won't start in on CPAN's crappy defaults which lead me to wait 10
> minutes for Net::FTP to time out before it falls back on the ftp or wget
> command I already told it about. Or wait, I guess I just started in.

Of course I'm somewhat biased :-) but I suppose you have *done*
something about the crappy defaults like submitted bug reports/
code/suggestions to the Perl maintainers.  If not, I really
can't bring myself to care...

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
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