This package contains the utility which helps build AUR package from CPAN modules.
It is not safe to install this package directly from CPAN since it may break system files (and there are other drawbacks). And there is no AUR package for this (obviously because this package already exists in Arch repositories). And to build this package we need this package itself (kind of bootstrapping).
May be there is some alternative way to do this job in Manjaro?
Well, AFAIK perl-app-cpanminus is not related to Arch based systems at all (opposed to perl-cpanplus-dist-arch), it is just some frontend to CPAN, and it doesn’t use pacman.
which is what I thought you were looking for as the AUR package description is
get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
If that is not it - I suggest you use the upstream PKGBUILD - see my previous [comment above] - after all it just pulls and installs a similar CPAN tool - it is your system - you can do what ever you want.
Perhaps I have entirely misunderstood what the module does - and if the module is aimed at - not only perl packages - but general Arch Linux packages - then this is the reason why it is excluded - simply because it is too Arch Linux specific.
And the base - if you can call it that - perl-cpanplus is in the repo.
No, I was looking for a tool which can automatically generate PKGBUILD from CPAN modules, to install them via pacman. But this tool just install modules bypassing pacman, not as a package, but by copying files to system folders, just like cpan does.
Well, eventually I was going to do just that, but decided to ask – maybe there is some other preferred way since this module was intentionally excluded from Manjaro repositories.
I am no Perl expert - really a novice when it comes to Perl - so I don’t know - but I have asked the team.
I don’t think there is another tool for it.
It is likely the module is too Arch Linux specific - e.g. injecting support information and such into the package content - thus the package would point to the wrong support channel.
Well, it is not the craziest thing in the Linux world
As I said in the topic start, it is kind of bootstrapping.
It seems to me that this package was excluded from Manjaro repositories by mistake. May be there is some misunderstanding as above, somebody mistakenly decided from its name that it is related to Arch linux only while it is not.
I think we have to think over how to return the package to Manjaro repositories.
