Managing perl modules

[Ian A. Tegebo]

I'm finding myself needing perl modules that aren't already ports.  I
haven't been using BSDPAN because I heard that that method doesn't work
with portupgrade and friends.  So far I've been following the porter's
handbook for my own local ports overlay.

Is there a recommended method for managing perl modules?  I was hoping
cpan2dist via CPANPlus would do the trick but it looks like it hasn't
been subclassed for ports yet:

http://search.cpan.org/~kane/CPANPLUS-0.076/

I know Gentoo has g-cpan for this purpose and debian has dh-make-perl.
Is BSDPAN dead simple and I've just been missing out?

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Ian Tegebo