* Danny Sauer
Patrick wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] OT: Removing attachements from stored mails (or my problems with perl)' on Tue, Nov 02 at 08:30:
But you are going away from the SuSE distro standard rpm system and will introduce dependency problems in rpms which are false and eventually cause maintenance problems. Better to find an *rpm* solution, if possible.
Sorry - I was speaking from experience on my SuSE systems, not from pure theory.
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I've been using CPAN to keep my perl modules up to date since 5.x, and have had 0 problems with false dependencies related to perl modules.
I too have done this, but try to limit it.
This is partially because almost nothing depends on perl module packages aside from other perl modules and partially because I generally run server-like machines where I'm not adding and removing random app-of-the-week all the time.
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I suppose that if you're a dim user who can't remember if you've installed a module or not, then you should stick with RPM for managing perl modules.
Should I be getting upset?
Most of those users aren't gonna be using CPAN or anything like that anyway, though, since yast will take care of their deps.
Or YaST, you said most and I must assume that you are referring to noob's. But YaST is rpm dependent and only complains, does not *solve* dependency problems.
I'm pretty confident that "better" is in the eye of the beholder here.
Depends, on whether the "beholder" is considering the noob's or himself. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos