Re: Perl packages, CPAN, locally installed .pm files
"Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 2) A new version of a package might install a newer version of the modules
> than that installed by hand by the user. In the present system this will
> not, in fact, cause a problem - but if we switch the directory ordering, as
> I (and Deebugger on #debian is inclined to agree with me) suspect we
> should, we will then hit this problem.
Be careful here. Many sites have laxer permissions on /usr/local, and
so changing the path order to look there first may have severe
security implications for sites which designed their policy based on
the old order. Not being a security expert, I'll leave this to others
to evaluate.
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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