In the perl world, I: - use apt to manage what's installed on the system - use CPAN to manage additional stuff installed per-user (you just specify a standard

In the perl world, I: - use apt to manage what's installed on the system - use CPAN to manage additional stuff installed per-user (you just specify a standard install prefix for all CPAN modules) that way I don't mess with the system (any packages wanted by system components see the version they are expecting) but I can have (per-user) additional pkgs + updated pkgs, which is often useful. This seems to be the best of both worlds, to me.