On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can use CPAN just fine and combine them with MacPorts Perl ports. > > Usually you should try to stick with one method or the other, but it > > really should make no difference. > > If you want to use CPAN (and you want to keep things somewhat simple for > yourself) - you should install your CPAN libs into some other directory > (something like ~/perl5 works). > > I thought MacPorts CPAN was modified to install in a separate module > hierarchy that would not cause path conflicts with MacPorts-installed > modules? If not, it should be.
MacPorts perl is modified so that CPAN by default installs into the site_perl directory (which is correct). However - it ends up being kind of messy (especially with upgrades) and/or can be confusing since it's part of the 'default' perl module search path. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
