On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 06:30:19PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I tend to stick to Debian packages as my primary choice, resorting > to off-distribution packages when needed (e.g. not packaged for > Debian, or I /need/ a newer version). Of course it takes some foresight > to guess in advance whether you expect such a situation in the > future. > > Rationale: they mesh better with the flow of system updates/upgrades. > > I've found Perl packaging in Debian outstanding. The Debian Perl > packaging team does a damn good job indeed.
Pretty much the same here. I was initially hired as a Perl developer, then gradually moved into more sysadmin duties and, in both roles, I prefer to stick with the Debian-packaged perl binary. It gets me security updates as needed and the only reasons I see a particular need for PerlBrew and the like are: 1) You need different compile-time options than Debian chooses 2) You need access to a feature that's only present in a newer-than- Debian Perl version 3) You want to have the "latest and greatest" for its own sake Personally, I've never encountered #1 or #2 in practice and if #3 mattered to me, then I wouldn't be running Debian stable in the first place. -- Dave Sherohman