I've installed Perl 5.8.0 into /opt, and added /sw/include and /sw/lib to the search list. I can build anything in the CPAN myself, using libs provided by fink. It's nice.
I never install any of the fink Perl packages. I don't need 'em. However, the packages that depend on those fink Perl packages insist on installing them, and they break if they include anything that might end up in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin, since those binaries are not compatible with my /usr/local/bin/perl (5.6 vs 5.8). I find myself watching the "fink install" or "fink update-all" carefully, getting ready to type "sudo rm -rf /sw/lib/perl5/darwin" immediately if something gets rammed into there. For the wishlist, I would like a way to say "I'm managing my own perl installation, thank you". I'm sure it'd be too messy to require the html-parser-pm maintainer to also provide a dummy system-html-parser-pm, so I'm hoping there's a more sane global solution to that. Maybe there could be one large "system-perl" that provides all the perl requirements for every package. Or maybe just an entry in the config file. Any thoughts on how to do this without breaking everything open? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
