Hi Benny!


Benny Pedersen wrote in MBSE:
>> but installing and using the debian package that's available instead of
>> trying to do an in place compile of it again.

> i think thats the real bug you have hidding there, never ever install from
> source unless the whole os is done this way
> good example is if perl is in gentoo, then dont install modules from cpan
> direct, perl can be install 100% from cpan if it did not exists in gentoo
> portage :=)

  Perhaps that's an issue with Gentoo?  I've not had any problems using Perl
modules from both the Debian repositories and from CPAN;  they don't get
installed to the same paths, after all...  Mind you, _not_ the same modules
from both, at least not for system wide usage;  but then that's my
responsibility as admin of the system to keep track of that.  

  'Course, it's becoming less and less of an issue as any modules that I want
to be able to use but are not already in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories
(depending on which system I'm working on), I just create a local debian
package for it.  Though for a Windows system, I don't have that kind of option;
 I just use CPAN for those...




Jame

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