On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 19:18 -0500, Travis Northrup wrote: > 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 > This is already in the CentOS extras repo, as it is a requirement for heartbeat, so no new recompile is required. All you have to do to find info like this in yum is to do this: yum provides "Net::SSLeay" or more correctly yum provides perl(Net::SSLeay) Thanks, Johnny Hughes > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Centos-docs mailing list > Centos-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20061021/2d201c58/attachment-0004.sig>