on 9-22-2008 3:56 PM Akemi Yagi spake the following: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Filipe Brandenburger > <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 18:36, Al Sparks <data345-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: >>> I'm trying to install [...whatever...] using CPAN. >> DON'T! >> >>> 3. Lastly, here's the error I get when I attempt to install >>> Pod::Simple through CPAN: >> That's why you should never use CPAN on a RHEL/CentOS box. > > Famous quote by Jim Perrin: > > "CPAN on rpm based machines is EVIL in so many ways it's not even funny. > > To start, nothing installed via cpan identifies itself to the rpm > database, so anything you install which depends on a perl (CPAN) > module will fail because of missing dependencies. If you install > something via CPAN and upgrade the perl rpm for some reason (a perl > upgrade is released which translates regex into plain understandable > english perhaps) it's entirely possible that it will overwrite things > installed via cpan. This will cause you headaches down the road. In > addition, if a cpan module gets overly greedy with its dependency > build, you can end up with a broken or otherwise non-working perl > install. > > It's much better to use the perl modules in the rpmforge and c.k.o > repositories, or cpan2rpm, or cpanflute. These will not interfere in > such a manner." > > ( http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-February/033001.html ) I really wish upstream would break or otherwise disable the CPAN shell and access mechanisms and keep this from happening. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080922/84e2ae94/attachment-0005.sig>