On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: > 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 the problem with CPAN is its hard to maintain compatibility with multiple systems, each time you build it, you get something else. once you build a set of RPMs you can deploy them over and over, and if you need to update stuff, you can rebuild them with the same spec against a different system base. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast