Joel Roth's post on /usr/local reminded me of something about using cpan and perl.
I used to use perl on Mac OS X. About the first word of advice we used to give on the Mac OS X perl mail list was, do NOT overwrite the system perl. Install another perl interpreter separately, in parallel with the system perl, in /usr/local or /opt or such. Use the #! line in your scripts to point to the interpreter for your separately installed perl. Then you can have an up-to-date perl and use cpan and not worry about messing up the system's perl. (You just have to then remember to keep the perl stuff up to date yourself.) If you really need to use modules available only from SPAN, (not available or wrong version in the distro repositories), that would be what you would want to do here in debian, as well. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43ioqmbrgztyilmpzhb01q89857o6prcf-92434hvorx...@mail.gmail.com
