-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Howorth wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
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I would say the reverse is more accurate, SuSE rpms may damage the perl configuration...
That's not supposed to happen either. Look at your @INC:
perl -e '{ print "@INC\n" }'
You should see site_perl directories that are used by modules installed from CPAN and vendor_perl directories that are used by modules installed from Suse rpms.
Applications from Suse rpms should have their @INC set so that they never see the site_perl directories, which is why I'm asking Joe and Patrick for details of the offending programs they say they've seen.
Conversely, applications that you build yourself will use any modules installed from Suse rpms by default but will give preference to any that you install from CPAN. Any Suse rpms subsequently installed won't affect modules installed from CPAN. Again, if you know of any that actually do, please say what they are!
Never looked at this too closely before, Nice to know about this, and that is the case. The basic @INC is something I take a hands off approach to at the moment ..., though I will need to take a more detailed look at a future date as using FindBin is apparently discouraged for distributed perl stuff. However I have noticed on a couple of occasions that CPAN seems to flag that the SuSE installed version is the latest and only acts if required... Not too sure what this implies if for any reason the site version becomes older than the SuSE version (say after an OS upgrade.. ). Thanks fo the info...
Cheers, Dave
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