On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:40 AM, René J.V. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Have there been known instances of a major python/perl/ruby version update > in an OS update (as opposed to upgrade)? That's less the problem than installing a later version of some module that doesn't work with whatever Apple is doing with perl/python/ruby. I've had the "joy" of this on Linux a couple times (notably, a Perl module version required by my employer's tooling broke SuSE's X11 configuration tool), and helped someone un**** their Debian system after they manually installed a Perl module that broke dpkg. At this point, the strong recommendation from *all* the upstream folks on this is never touch the OS install except by OS tools; make a separate installation if you want to install additional modules or different module versions than are in the OS package manager. MacPorts adheres to this. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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