Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > > The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is > > probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink > > to

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > mike polniak wrote: > > > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > > renamed the executable to per

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
mike polniak wrote: > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > > issues with using it or it interfe

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilitie