Perl & dpkg
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.
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