Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Marlier, Ian <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [09-26-05 16:37]:
> 
> That was what I did until, one day....I went to build a perl app, which
> happened to require HTML::Mason 0.28 or greater.  Now, HTML::Mason
> wasn't available as a SuSE package.  Or rather, it was, but it was v.
> 0.13 of the module.  So I went and found an RPM, which, upon
> installation, hosed most of perl (including YaST, which is based on
> perl!), and generally turned a fairly straightforward project into a
> massive debacle.

not a SuSE rpm ???

> That was what led me to the "forget RPM, CPAN is my friend" mindset.

but now, your rpm dependencies are tanked.

> Now I'm trying to save myself from the wilderness :-)

yup, got to get out of the tank.  I have fallen in love with
apt-for-suse.

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