Octavian Râşniţă <orasn...@gmail.com> writes: > From: "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> > > Octavian Râşniţă <orasn...@gmail.com> writes:
As a side note, Octavian, your mail client didn't quote any of my text, which made it quite tricky to work out what you and I both said. ;) > >> I've seen a recommendation on this list for Debian for running perl apps, > >> and recently I started to use this distro. I've seen that I can install > >> perl modules very hard under Debian if I use the CPAN shell. > > > > If you forgive me descending into opinion, I think you are approaching this > > from a point of view that will make Debian, more or less, unhelpful to you. > > Installing Debian, then putting everything else in place from CPAN (at least > > system-wide) is going to cause problems in the longer term. > > Yes I think you are right. I think I would like a distro that allow me to > install packages like libpng, libgd and others like these very easy, like > yum and apt-get do, but also let me install perl modules with cpan because > no distro's repository would be as well updated as CPAN directly. > > The solution seems to be to use Debian and install perl modules using > local::lib. *nod* That, or perhaps investigate something with a ports-alike system, either on *BSD, or Gentoo, or perhaps some other Linux distro. > Now, I've started to use a fresh installed Debian and I've installed very > many CPAN modules using CPAN in the default perl modules location. What > would you recommend me to do in this case? Can I just rename/delete the > files and dirs installed into > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 > > and install them using local::lib? If you installed all the modules under /usr/local then you should be pretty OK; Debian deliberately keep that for local software installation, so no package will put things there. You could even keep installing things there if you want; it won't *break* anything — it just won't give you too much value from the "Debian" part of the equation either. ;) At this point I would suggest one of two things: 1. Delete /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/* entirely, and use local::lib 2. Just keep using /usr/local to install stuff system-wide, and accept that this is potentially going to make the wonderful stuff people say about Debian less applicable to your machine. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/