On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:04:07AM -0400, Vick Khera wrote: > On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Josh Narins wrote: > > > They are never clobbered with: > > > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/local > > so now you need your own private copy of perl in /opt/local as well.... else > the package system may clobber your perl modules installed by hand too. It > becomes a very tangled web when you have some stuff manually installed and > some by packages, were the manual stuff is intermixed with the packages, like > CPAN installation of modules.
No, you can use the system perl and put the modules that you/RT needs in the /opt/local area. We do that for many different packages already to isolate them from auto-updates of vendor packages. Cheers, Ken
