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I haven't used Ruby much, but the Debian approach works well for me in Perl. I like that instead of pulling random packages off CPAN with no testing, I can depe

I haven't used Ruby much, but the Debian approach works well for me in Perl. I like that instead of pulling random packages off CPAN with no testing, I can depend on a Debian package of a Perl module, which is integration-tested with the rest of the distribution and release-managed, especially in terms of which other packages and versions it works with.

kawsper 14y ago
How do you ensure which versions of the packages that you receive? It is nice to rely on system-packages, but if you depend on certain versions of certain packages you might see problems with that approach.
- ars 14y ago
  If you depend on certain versions of a package you have bigger problems.
  - kawsper 14y ago
    Yeah, legacy systems, you are fortunate if you don't have to deal with these.
- deleted 14y ago
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