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.
I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN consistently built a very tidy environment.
I do agree, though. Install from as few repo's as possible. CentOS and EPEL are good choices.