I'm really unhappy with the way Perl and dpkg interact. I would like to use CPAN.pm to maintain my Perl distribution, rather than using dselect/dpkg, but some of the Debian modules require the .deb files for Perl modules such as libnet or libwww-perl.
Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve the right to upgrade using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and its nifty interface. Also I've noticed that some Perl modules get installed into /usr/lib/perl5 (bad!) when I use the 'perl Makefile.PL; make test; make install' method, and others into /usr/local/lib/site-perl (good). Does anyone here know how to force all Perl modules I install to go in /usr/local/lib/site-perl so they won't conflict with the Debian stuff? Ideally they could coexist; Debian would put stuff in /usr/lib/perl5 and Perl would put stuff in /usr/local/lib/site-perl, but I don't know how to achieve that state of bliss.... help?? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339 voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
