[portage-overlay-devel] asdf versus ebuilds

[Xavier Maillard]

Hans Halvorson <hhalvors at Princeton.EDU> wrote:

> Isn't this the equivalent to using 'cpan install' directly to install
> Perl modules?  If so, wouldn't this be undesirable, because portage
> doesn't know about what is installed by asdf-install (and so we can
> have package conflicts, plus we can't use portage tools to see which
> packages are installed)?

Agreed. I did have problems with this in the past.

Xavier