Re: [Maypole] Distribution Apache/mod_perl Question

From: Dave Howorth (dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 14:33:00 BST


Drew Crampsie - Software Developer wrote:
> using CPAN to install perl modules in debian is not a good idea! a later
> .deb install of a module could clobber something.

This is not the case, AFAIK. CPAN installs in a path closer to the front
of @INC than Debian packages, so nothing gets clobbered and
CPAN-installed packages are used by default.

On my development machine, I use Woody because I want a stable platform.
I add specific backports where necessary, and I use CPAN for all my Perl
modules and do not have a problem. I'd love to see a Debian apt-get that
used CPAN instead.

On a production machine, I can see an argument for only using deb
packages from stable, for robustness and security. But in that case,
making your own debs from CPAN downloads is just as dangerous.

For development, why complicate things with yet another package manager
when Perl already has a brilliant one.

Cheers, Dave

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