On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Golden writes: > > Seems like a lot of headache. Why not just save the tarballs > > somewhere? > > Were there tarballs in the first place?
Presumably at some point, for modules that live on CPAN. > Suppose a Fedora or Ubuntu user is wanting to check that upgrading the > OS hasn't caused any test regressions, it's likely that at least some of > the existing Perl modules were installed as RPMs or Debian packages, not > by CPAN.pm from tarballs. Perhaps the tarball could be included with the RPM then and installed in some standardized place. David
