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How does Debian handle CPAN? Must you rely on apt-get for your Perl modules as well?
by ruby_roo 18y ago
How does Debian handle CPAN? Must you rely on apt-get for your Perl modules as well?
- jeremiah 18y agoThe debian <--> CPAN interface is easily managed, and there are more that a thousand CPAN modules in debian. (See the debian-perl web site: http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/) The great thing about debian packages is that they not only manage all your perl dependencies for you, but they also manage operating system dependencies too. Gems can't do that. The Perl Foundation actually holds up debian's packaging work of CPAN modules as the model for other distributions. (See http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?hints_for_distributors http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?hints_for_dist...)