Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> If you got it from the OS, they should be able to sort it out. If you >> hand-installed it, my strong preference is to repeat that install process >> which will do things like ensure that dependencies are followed and found. > > Dirvish is not part of Slackware. > >> Current "best practice" is usually CPANPLUS, but that obviously means >> getting CPANPLUS installed on the machine. > > Rather self referential, eh? Use cpan to get cpanplus ... or cpanminus.
Any of 'em should work. :) CPANPLUS has a reputation for being very heavy, but it is (IIRC) in core with 5.10 or maybe 5.12, so that should get a bit easier. >> However, cpanminus is starting to take over in the popularity and performance >> stakes for folks who have strongly Internet connected systems; it has some >> plugins to do things like "show me outdated modules" and the like. >> >> https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/tree/master/plugins > > I'll keep this for reference. I update perl modules only when some > application (such as building the most current spamassassin) requires them. > Otherwise, I ignore it. I would highly recommend grabbing cpanminus, then, and just using it for that. It really doesn't suck compared to the competition.[1] Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] I didn't actually believe this for ages, and used both CPAN and CPANPLUS, but have now been converted. :) -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
