joe wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 17:47 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >>> * Patrik Hasibuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-16-07 17:44]: >>>> I use opensuse10.2. I installed 'WWW::Search::Google' with cpan. >>> openSUSE uses the rpm system, not cpan. You *will* have many problems >>> with dependencies and you *will* corrupt your rpm system using other >>> package systems, cpan, deb, install, rpms for other distro/versions... >> I see we're back to this again. Patrick, can you provide a single >> example of "problems with dependencies" and/or "corrupt your rpm system" >> caused by using CPAN? Specifically CPAN, not any of the other >> possibilities you mention. > > That's an easy one - perl tarballs are ignorant of your package database, and > a cpan install will simply overwrite your existing suse package without > hesitation or awareness of the fact. Likewise, rpm is unaware of the cpan > installed packages lurking there and will overwrite them in case of conflict.
This shouldn't happen. There is a built-in mechanism to prevent such conflicts. Can you please supply specific details of any packages where this has occurred? What is the package name, Suse and CPAN versions, which files have been overwritten (ls -l would be useful). And which applications were broken as a result? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
