On Friday 23 July 2004 01:17 pm, M�rio Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > That may be a good reason to use the "ask" option to
> > following dependencies, especially if using an older version
> > of Perl.  If it wanted a newer version of some module that's
> > bundled with Perl, then it will happily upgrade Perl for you.
> >  I have to say I prefer to do that one manually.
>
> I secon that.
> CPAN is a real shit. Only good for small modules with no dependencies.
> I've already tried ti install SpamAssassin from CPAN several times in
> differnt Unixes and always fails somewhere along the process.
> I always end to install the prerequisites modules first, and finaly
> SpamAssassin.
>
> Regards,
> M�rio Gamito

On the other hand, the ONLY way I install Spam-Assassin
is via cpan and as long as you can get a good list of mirrors
it has NEVER had a problem with prereqs.
On the several mail servers I maintain it is SOP to
install SA this way, and I only wish other installers we
half as smart.

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