Grammar and POD formatting corrections #23990
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As requested by hmartink. Fixes: GH Perl#23932
| package manager (e.g., C<sudo apt-get install perl>, or | ||
| C<sudo dnf install perl>). Note that sometimes one needs to install some | ||
| extra system packages in order to be able to use CPAN frontends, and that | ||
| extra system packages in order to be able to use CPAN packages, and that |
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I don't understand this change. I think "CPAN frontends" was deliberate here, though "CPAN clients" may be clearer
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I think it's unclear to begin with, certainly some CPAN packages need extra system libraries, but this may be referring to needing things like gcc and make to install them?
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When reviewing GH #23932, I didn't understand what frontends meant in this context; the requestor's suggestion of packages made more sense. But I'm wedded to that; I just want to get that ticket closed.
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To me ("using" CPAN) "modules" would be the most commonly heard phrase here, but "distributions" would make sense too I guess.
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I think this is talking about "installers" like carton/cpm/cpan{,+,-} as "cpan frontends"
Like "You need to install the dependencies if the installers, and likely also a compiler"
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@shlomif, this section was your patch from 2019. Would you like to comment here?
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I think this is talking about "installers" like carton/cpm/cpan{,+,-} as "cpan frontends"
Yeah, exactly
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As requested by hmartink.
Fixes: GH #23932