Hello Will, Thanks for the response Will. I think that I'll include a tidbit about that in the document. DAG has an rpm available, but I can also create an rpm specifically for this so that CentOS users will have multiple download options for Net::SSLeay Friday, October 20, 2006, 1:30:42 PM, you wrote: > On 20/10/06, Travis Northrup <digitalhype at gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't want to sound like a jerk here, but what does my mentioning >> the availability to install a Perl modules FROM a perl download source >> have anything to do with my question. >> >> He mentioned ssl. I told him how he could get it. >> >> Now since its "heavily discouraged" maybe you can tell me _why_ its >> discouraged cause I've never had a problem with it myself. Maybe I'm >> missing something that you know and I don't. > I suspect it's discouraged because it risks breaking packaging. On an > RPM-based system it's generally considered best-practice to stick to > RPMs. > Sticking with RPMs provides a known stable, consistent, tested > environment where interactions between applications and libraries are > predictable and reproduceable. > Now, it may be that a Perl and CPAN expert knows enough to prevent > non-packaged sources from tainting package owned files but not > everyone understands what's happening when they install CPAN stuff. > Hence "heavily discouraged". That doesn't mean don't do it, it just > means be aware of consequences if you do. > My £0.02 > Will. > _______________________________________________ > Centos-docs mailing list > Centos-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs