Re: apt-get perl mods?

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

cmustard wrote:
> Hey Tom,
>
> Yes, i do use cpan but there are a number of things i don't like about it.
> One is that it always looks for the newest versions of things (
> whether you wan't them or not)
> A recent example is i tried to install the `libwww' perl library
> via cpan for 3 days with tons of errors and dependancy problems that
> just would not resolve, it was a real pain, then someone showed me 
> how to get the lib via 'apt-get' and literally 2 minutes later, i 
> had a fully functional libwww perl library installed.
>
> Maybe this was a 'issue' with debian doing things a little differently
> and maybe not having the 'newest versions' of everything in the 'apt-get'
> database but when i was the true power of `apt-get', i was sold, so i always
> try to install via that first, if not then, yeah i will resort to whatever
> i have to get stuff installed.
>
> thanks
> -mUs


I to tend to try apt-get first, but for a different reason. 
Updates on CPAN aren't going to "appear" on my comuter using 
apt-get or any utility that CPAN offers.  They don't have a 
"update" feature that I'm aware of.

I also found out the I could not install Mail::SpamAssassin from 
CPAN as there were some dev libriries missing from Debian. 
Sometimes CPAN is not the easiest way to go.


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