Changeset bc784a2 for general/prog/perl-alternatives.xml

Timestamp:

09/15/2018 02:36:00 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

perl-modules

Children:

14a6ad3a

Parents:

d48dfaf4

Message:

perl modules branch: Next batch of modules. In particular, drop the no-longer-used IPv6 deps from Try::Tiny and update the runtime depen dency for URI to HTTP::Message.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/branches/perl-modules@20500 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/prog/perl-alternatives.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/prog/perl-alternatives.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
         There is an alternate way of installing the modules using the
         <command>cpan</command> shell <command>install</command> command. The
-        command automatically downloads the latest source from the CPAN archive,
-        extracts it, then runs the compilation, testing and installation
-        commands mentioned above.
+        command automatically downloads the latest source from the CPAN archive
+        for the module and any missing prerequisite modules listed by upstream.
+        Then for each module it extracts it, runs the compilation, the tests and
+        installs it.
       </para>