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prefer the concept of having the CPAN installer "co-ordinate"
with other platform-specific binary package installers.
I.e. ask dpkg, ask rpm, ask Windows installation
machinery/registry, etc. whether this external
application/library/developer SDK has been installed, etc. In
itself that is not very hard: packaging tool specific plugings
(query/install/uninstall) and then a large database of mappings
(what is this package called under this packaging tool, and how
is this package distributed     • by Alias (5735) on 2006.09.25
5:37 (#50378) Homepage Journal       > This, indeed, was the
original idea of the Alien:: namespace. I should know, I was in
the meeting where this idea was discussed.        I find this
odd though, because I've never seen any of this.        Based on
what was uploaded to CPAN, I had come to see Alien:: as "We need
this one specific thing really bad, so an