Re: The future of m-a and dkms

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:29:38AM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
[...]
> It's like having to install a package with "pear" because horde
> upgrade scripts once again requires a module that is not packaged
> in Debian (which was the case for Lenny and is also the case for
> Squeeze :-( ). Can those tools be integrated with e.g. aptitude?

At least for cases like the latter example, I find dh-make-perl a
lot better than letting CPAN run roughshod over my filesystem.
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