CPAN and apt-get

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

I wondered if there is a perferred way to handle aquiring perl
modules?

The CPAN interface shell that gets installed with perl provides a
nifty way to search, download, install  most of what is on CPAN and
can be enhanced with WAIT (a WAIS based search interface)

All this is pretty easy to use and takes care of some of the work of
finding and applying perl modules and packages.

Seems like this would interfere to some extent with apt-get concepts of
how to do things.

Whats the normal way to handle this?