Jeff Chimene wrote: > Jonathan Vanasco wrote: >> Try installing Scalar::Util by hand, or from a CPAN shell -- that >> module and a few others don't seem to like being installed as >> dependencies by many modules. >> >> few perl modules make it to debian packages, fewer are timely. debian >> was notorious for a long time from having extremely out of date >> packages. you could try using the ubuntu ports system -- its far >> better maintained than debian. i've heard that regular debian >> machines can use them - I don't know the validity of that. there >> could also be a verison of rose in unstable. >> >> other than that, i'd suggest installing from source or cpan. there >> are only 2 real differences between a real install ( cpan / source ) >> and a .deb : where the files go, and if the files are hooked into an >> upgrade system (other than cpan's own ) > Thanks for this advice. It turns out there was a similar question on the > Catalyst list. You're absolutely right: the Scalar::Util from CPAN got > installed as a dependency. By removing it, I reverted to the Debianized > version; which version does have the XS support. > > FWIW, there can be other differences between a Debianized version and > CPAN. I'm not sure of the intricacies, but LIB::SAX (sic) has some sort > of Debian-specific hook(s) in it. The Debian Catalyst package was a > good bootstrap, and I was able to get Catalyst going from there (using > CPAN to fill in the holes).
Don't get me started on Debian perl modules again... http://use.perl.org/~jk2addict/journal/32619 -=Chris
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