Perl 5.14 ad default, and Irssi to use it

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Jan 16 16:56:32 PST 2012


On Jan 16, 2012, at 18:54, Puneet Kishor wrote:

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> On Jan 16, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> We recommend you do not use cpan. 
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> Why not? I have been using `cpanm` to install all my Perl modules, and have even compiled one from scratch (the `perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install` dance) and have not experienced any problem thus far.
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> So, I am curious as to why the recommendation to not use cpan to install modules.

Because I was under the impression that cpan would install things to the same place that MacPorts would install them, and thus cause a conflict.




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