Barry Roberts wrote:
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I am very dependent on some excellent perl web apps (cvsmonitor,
webgui, rt) that have a lot of dependencies, and I have resigned
myself to the fact that every time I need to do a clean install on a
new machine I'm going to spend a half day waiting for errors so I can
then 'force install', manually editing config files to get things to
work when everything supposedly went ok with the 'install', and
basically pulling out hair. That's why
A central repository of cross-platform C libraries and perl extensions
that just automagically download, build, and work is a nice dream.
CPAN is a nightmare. Downloading .jar files, OTOH really does almost
always work.
Debian.
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