On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 03:39 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > 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.
Yeah, but this will cause dependency hell. The perl5 debs are required by a large number of other debs and when you try to install them, they will bark. You could --force the installs since you have a valid perl interpreter in /usr/local/... However, from a package management viewpoint that sucks after a while because something *will* break on you down the road. And your sysadmins will be forced to grab their pitchforks and lighted torches to hunt you down in they get paged at 3am. I like Ben's solution. In keeping with his comments on dpkg vs. CPAN being in control, I personally try to let the OS handle the dependencies for everything that it can (a lot of perl modules are already in .deb, .rpm, etc.) and CPAN install only if no packages exist. --Larry _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
