# from Joshua ben Jore
# on Sunday 12 April 2009 20:06:
>> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_best_admin_practices
>
>It may be a best practice to maintain your own perl but having just
>done this at work, it's a massive time sink. Our new platform at work
>is an Ubuntu mod_perl system with 208 CPAN modules. We produced a .deb
>for perl+modules and another for mod_perl
Only *one* .deb for perl and all of the modules?
>but it took us several weeks
>to do it and we had to learn a bunch about how to author for Debian.
>It was painful and I don't recommend it for most people.
You don't have to do it as Debian packages. Simply installing from
source and then building a full set of modules has never taken me more
than a few hours.
--Eric
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If the collapse of the Berlin Wall had taught us anything, it was that
socialism alone was not a sustainable economic model.
--Robert Young
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