Lars Nooden wrote:
On 4/7/10 2:42 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
More serious question about ports. What about needing a newer version of
a perl module than is in packages?
The first step would be to move to -current, because -stable must keep
the versions it is published with, and check the ports@ list.
... I like the idea of creating my own package instead of...
It's a good idea out of laziness, if for no other reason, because
manually trying to mix-and-match applications both with a package
manager and from elsewhere will eventually return at some inconvenient
time to bite hard on some very soft parts.
/Lars
Yes, I've seen that when updating packages. I've been using only
-current for a while now. I will do this for now on. Seems completely
worth the effort.
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