Steffen Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And now that I think about it, I'm not so convinced about that whole > >"concenience for the end user" nonsense. If they're mucking about > >installing perl modules from the CPAN packages by themself, they're > >probably developers that need some extra time to sit there and think > >about what sort of madness they're getting themselves into anyway. > I strongly disagree! CPAN is the preferred source for any Perl modules > and the associated tools like CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS are the preferred > method of installing them. Why? Because since you are not going to see > all modules in .deb or whatever packages and not in the most recent > versions. Using both the system's package system and CPAN's for module > installation is going to bite you on most systems some day.
Steffen, I more meant the madness they are getting themselves into by programming in perl in the first place. :-) - Tyler