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=head2 Or use crontab -e to put this in a user crontab if you don't want to fetchware system wide

    # Check for updates using fetchware every night at 2:30AM.
    # Minute   Hour   Day of Month     Month          Day of Week     Command    
    # (0-59)  (0-23)     (1-31)  (1-12 or Jan-Dec) (0-6 or Sun-Sat)
        30      2          *              *               *           fetchware upgrade-all

=head1 MOTIVATION

While sysadmining I liked to install my own compiled from source versions of
popular programs like Apache, MySQL, or Perl without threading. However, doing
so means that you have to manually recompile everytime a new security hole comes
out, which is annoyingly frequent for Apache. So, fetchware was created to bring
the power of package management to source code distributions.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Fetchware is a package manager for source code distributions. It takes advantage
of the fact that coincidentially I<most> source code distributions follow the same
conventions. Most use FTP and HTTP mirrors. Most use AutoTools or at least just
a few commands that you execute in sequence to configure, build, and install the