perl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Masha Vecherkovskaya
> <mashavecher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> It's not that I WANT to use CPAN. It was advised in Circos installation
>> instructions. That is why I asked if I have a chance to mess up everything.
> 
> When you install Perl from MacPorts you will be using that one and
> should not have any conflicts with the system-installed Perl.
> 
> You can use CPAN just fine and combine them with MacPorts Perl ports.
> Usually you should try to stick with one method or the other, but it
> really should make no difference.

If you want to use CPAN (and you want to keep things somewhat simple for yourself) - you should install your CPAN libs into some other directory (something like ~/perl5 works).

I'll add a port for local::lib shortly (I'm not sure why we don't have one already) - but it makes it easier to deal with the situation.

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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