On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:32:46AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
Sorry - I was speaking from experience on my SuSE systems, not from pure theory. 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. 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.
A better and easier way to maintain Perl modules is described in http://www.suse.com/~mmj/Package-Conventions/SuSE-Package-Conventions-3.html... (but this is for really lazy sysadmins who hate to do the same job more than once) Regards, -Kastus