From: Jani Monoses <jani@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T19:19:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpa-base 0.2.0


> I have to say that cpan.pm is NOT the model rpa-base is based on. The
> major sources of inspiration are FreeBSD and Debian: I found that
> on a technical level, there's very little to be stolen from cpan.pm 
> (I believe that both RubyGems and rpa-base are more powerful than
> cpan.pm); I'm more interested in the CPAN process as a whole, but I still
> believe there's more to be learned from FreeBSD/Debian than from CPAN.

could it preserve the downloaded files then in something like distfiles ?
if the install aborts for some reason it's quicker the second time after
correcting the situation if you have the files locally :)

Jani