On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 03:39:21 -0500, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "BT" == Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BT> My recollection says that Debian likes to place the > BT> modules that it installs in /usr/lib while the ones > BT> that you install go into /usr/local/lib. Guess which > BT> one is first on Perl's library path? > > BT> This can cause problems when you've installed the > BT> needed version of a module but Debian has placed > BT> an older version somewhere earlier in your path. > > BT> My solution is to configure CPAN to pass the > BT> install-time argument UNINST=1, which causes CPAN > BT> to delete the conflicting Debian version of a module > BT> on install. (If I'm going to CPAN, I know what I want to > BT> do and Debian doesn't know enough to manage the > BT> packages for me.) > > i think another solution would be to just rip out debian's > /usr/lib/perl5 and /usr/bin/perl and install perl from source using > /usr/local/lib. then all cpan modules will be properly installed there > and perl will be in /usr/local/bin. also then you get to build perl the > way you want. my suse 9 has perl built with threads which slows all > programs down.
I think that Perl is part of the Debian core system - they have a lot of system utilities that use Perl, and have been known to trip interesting bugs when they switch versions. Plus were I to take your suggestion then I'd have to do a bunch of research to find out what custom modules they expect to have installed, and install them myself. Furthermore I could get into interesting fun if in a system upgrade Debian decided to reinstall its own version of Perl after all. And I'm suddenly back into the original problem with no idea what broke, and what all I need to fix to get back. If you want to use a /usr/local/bin/perl on Debian, go ahead. But replacing theirs with yours (either in local or not) seems to me to be bad sysadmining. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
