On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:06:47 -0500, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fates of the two are forever intertwined. > > perllocal.pod and .packlist have to be there for basic backwards > compatibility if nothing else.
You have to think of CPAN.pm, or something similar, or CPAN+MM, however you look at it, as a cross platform package manager for Perl. By and large, I would rather use CPAN to manage my Perl installation than RPM, or PPM, or whatever. -joseph
