On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Evan Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just wanted to buzz in and be slightly more explicit. Debian doesn't > understand Perl, and they don't care about CPAN. Debian hand-hacks > stuff in the most virulent and ridiculous fashion: they'll open up a > perl class, hack in an extra method, make random other methods die > explicitly, and then they'll make your system dependent on it. I use > CPAN too, and Debian as my primary distribution but that doesn't > change a thing. They could for instance, subclass a module for use by > the system into a ::Debian package, but instead they choose the dirty > hack-it-in method which makes life difficult for those of us who want > to simply get a job done. The Debian packages don't have to pass the > natural tests, they're not published under the same namespaces, they > don't change version numbers, and they're hardly sound improvements. > > Debian will justify this because they want the system configured > through /etc, and not at the whim of each individual author, but > unfortunately that doesn't help us here, or people that depend on the > non-debian behavoir. > > Use CPAN at your risk, it might work -- it might not. I do, and I feel > comfortable saying most programmers on this list can probably navigate > around the problems Debian creates, but for the end perl user, Debian > is a horrible platform. > The difference between a troll and a critique? Citations and references.
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