Thanks for all your answers, but I settled for a different solution.
It appeared the perl-package was available in the debian-repo, so I
can use package{}.




On Aug 17, 5:49 am, Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> wrote:
> Sorry, when you use Gmail you end up top-posting whether you like it or not.
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> > Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> writes:
>
> > It is always nice if y'all follow the existing quoting style in mails; it
> > makes it much less confusing to follow later.
>
> > > I have to agree with Daniel on this one.  While it's annoying to build
> > > Solaris (in my case) packages for every CPAN package you want to install,
> > > then end result is that I can control the installed version *precisely*.
> > > While it may never have been a problem for you, I've been bitten more
> > than
> > > once by CPAN upgrades that break my software, so "old" systems work while
> > > new systems don't.
>
> > FWIW, at work we gave up on that despite using Debian and having pretty
> > good
> > support tools to do the job.  We settled on packaging all the Perl bits we
> > use
> > as a single package and landing that everywhere.
>
> > That gives us a good balance between the two paths, and has worked out well
> > to
> > date.  Plus it keeps system Perl and company Perl separate...
>
> >        Daniel
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