On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:32:43PM +0530, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> Shakes his head and hopes you will someday get enlightened as to the
> purpose of CPAN.
>
> --------
> > CPAN is great for red hat users (for example) who don't mind breaking things
let's not condescend too quickly -- when you finally come up for
air you might just get the bends...
here's my level of enlightenment on the purpose of cpan -- see if
i'm off (and if so, please illuminate):
cpan is where you can get perl modules. install the CPAN perl
module itself and you have handy command-line access to
downloading, building, testing and installing any perl module
you could care to shake a stick at.
this will cause no more problems on just about any linux distro
than doing a normal rpm install.
but if you're on debian, you're bypassing debian's advanced
packaging tool with all its inter-dependency info. on debian we
can get the appropriate version of package ABC /for our system/
(old-fashioned/anal "stable" [that's where you find me] vs
wanderlust-driven "testing" vs bleeding-edge "unstable"). with
direct cpan access i'm not sure there's a way to download the old
version of module XYZ that utilizes the old QRS libraries i've
got on my system. (it may be possible, but debian packages take
care of all that for me, saving me lots of learning curve, if it
exists.)
this is an advantage we debianites enjoy, and it's hard to
explain to others.
apt-get install libxml-perl libapache-ssi-perl libhtml-mason-perl
at one time, the system setup i've got right now, was
state-of-the-art, somewhere. my system is basically a snapshot of
that moment in time. with apt-get, instead of the current latest
and greatest -- which might force me to upgrade something
significant before i'm ready -- i'd get the packages that works
with my current system.
unless i'm wrong.
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