[KLUG Members] Re: Best place to find/download perl modules...

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:46:17AM -0400, Jamie McCarthy was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> And, annoyingly, the next time your package management system decides
> it needs to upgrade a perl module, it may actually downgrade it from
> what the CPAN had installed (Debian does this).

Another example of The Single Solution error.

Apt is a great tool, but emerge/apt/rpm/tgz all share the same problem:
they don't communicate with other package managers. In more elevated
language, they impose a single namespace for each system which is proof
against all the others.

> BTW, the module called CPAN.pm is old, creaky, and in the process of
> being replaced;  my hope is that CPANPLUS.pm, which is being groomed
> to take over, will be smarter about all this.

The best help would be to integrate CPAN, PEAR et al.  with a single API
to different package managers. But that would require a lot of effort.
One person's bugfix breaks another's useful feature, or just silently
changes some odd behavior that other, previous programs wrote around.

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