Nearly all CPAN modules I install on my home system are now installed to my home directory, under ~/perl5 using local::lib. So far, I haven't encountered any failures that don't happen when installing to the system perl or a custom-compiled perl.
However, one additional thing I've started doing is to turn that ~/perl5 directory into a git repository! This way, if I (or the cpan client) unexpectedly mess something up, I don't have to start from scratch! If I make sure to commit any changes, I can always roll-back. I got the idea from nothingmuch, aka. Yuval Kogman. On a related note, I'm going to start experimenting with using git in a similar fashion on a mini-cpan. -- -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
