On 04/01/14 02:13, Tom Robinson wrote: > On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >>> Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages >>> only from CentOS and the rest from CPAN >> If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and EPEL and >> avoid CPAN entirely. if you absolutely need something thats not in >> core or EPEL, I'd use cpanspec to build an rpm, and use that to install >> on your production systems. >> > Interesting. I will look at cpanspec. Didn't know that one. <snip> I've used that for several packages that some researchers wanted. Be warned: how easy or difficult it is to build depends *entirely* on the programming competency, NOT the subject matter expertise, of the project contributors. sci-kit was *very* easy to build. So was another, which I forget the name of now. bio-perl was a disaster, and took weeks - a lot seemed to have been built on ubuntu, and some... I have *no* idea - BSD? Solaris? - but a number of modules had *hard-coded* into them /usr/bin/perl, and a few /usr/local/bin/perl, and on, and on, and oh, you need this module, and that, - it was something like 10 other modules, and *then* you find in the docs about the two major packages that have a circular dependency! This is just to warn you... but when the code is code, it works beautifully. mark