On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Michael C. Robinson < plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote:
> ... > True that perl is a dependency for many things, but Redhat is so slow to > upgrade perl and so many bugs are getting squashed that it is downright > scary to stick with the stock 5.8.8. > ... If you were to take a gander at perl's changelog, you might notice that redhat doesn't stick with the stock 5.8.8 either. They cherry pick the fixes, and particularly the security fixes, from the newer releases and backport them into the version that they support. Ali _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
