Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

[David Nusinow <krmt1984@ucla.edu>]

	Oh, and I forgot to mention *why* you need the libperl-dev package. In the 
spirit of the question you asked (teach me so I can do for myself) Debian 
takes the very interesting (and IMHO very smart) approach to packaging 
libraries by dividing them in to user and developer packages. If all you need 
is to use the library in a program, all you need is the user package. If you 
need to develop something with the program, or compile another program from 
source that requires the lib, then you need the -dev version of the package 
as well. This saves disk space and reduces the amount of useless crap on your 
system. There you go. You're fed :-)

- David Nusinow
  krmt1984@ucla.edu