begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:36:50PM -0800: [snip] > cpan will resolve dependencies, sometimes a lot of them it seems, and > works quite well most of the time. If there are problems, you sometimes > have to fetch a tarball and do the make and install by hand -- but > that's somewhat rare (YMMV).
Hm, the last few times I've played with CPAN, it's had to do this, and then eventually croaked with incomprehensible error messages while trying to compile some dependency. (This has been on Debian etch systems. Don't have a RedHat system to try it out on.) How stable is CPAN normally? Do most folks find it uber-robust, or just reasonably stable? [snip] -- The first few times I used CPAN, it was very slick. Shiny even. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
