The reason I quit using cpan is because it puts things places I don't want (overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example) and I never knew you could update in cpan. There's probably configuration I don't know about.
Updating in perl is much easier and most of the perl-modules should be up-to-date since some stinker (me) emails the maintainers every time their modules are updated. On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Jeremy Erwin wrote: > > On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > 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. > > > Perhaps we should move away from providing perl packages entirely-- and > name > needed perl modules to be installed. After all, CPAN does allow updates > via > > If such packages are not installed, perl -MCPAN - e shell could be > invoked with a preset level of inactivity. > > On the other hand certain perl modules are dependent upon potential > fink packages-- various XML modules may depend on expat, Bio:: depends > on a number of programs-ace, hmmr, ncbi-tools, etc. To my knowledge, > CPAN will not download, package, and install these dependencies. > > Jeremy > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSEE (6/86) + BSChem (3/95) + BAEnglish (8/95) + $2.50 = mocha latte ------------------------------------------------------- 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
