On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Lonnie Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not a Perl guy, i'm a sysadmin guy. I hate CPAN installed modules > on production servers. It complicates replicating the configuration > on replacement/additional servers. Everything should be in a package ... > from a package in a repository (including private repos). Only > exceptions should be internal custom software that comes as part of a > (semi-)automated deployment system.
Alien cpan modules can be included in that deployment system. Especially with configuration management software like Puppet or Salt or Chef, where you can configure the system to run cpan, or cpanm or whatever. -- Alan Young /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
