[Catalyst] Re: Debian recommendation

[Daniel Pittman]

Octavian Râşniţă <orasnita at gmail.com> writes:
> From: "Daniel Pittman" <daniel at rimspace.net>
> > Octavian Râşniţă <orasnita at gmail.com> writes:

As a side note, Octavian, your mail client didn't quote any of my text, which
made it quite tricky to work out what you and I both said. ;)

> >> I've seen a recommendation on this list for Debian for running perl apps,
> >> and recently I started to use this distro.  I've seen that I can install
> >> perl modules very hard under Debian if I use the CPAN shell.
> >
> > If you forgive me descending into opinion, I think you are approaching this
> > from a point of view that will make Debian, more or less, unhelpful to you.
> > Installing Debian, then putting everything else in place from CPAN (at least
> > system-wide) is going to cause problems in the longer term.
>
> Yes I think you are right. I think I would like a distro that allow me to
> install packages like libpng, libgd and others like these very easy, like
> yum and apt-get do, but also let me install perl modules with cpan because
> no distro's repository would be as well updated as CPAN directly.
>
> The solution seems to be to use Debian and install perl modules using
> local::lib.

*nod*  That, or perhaps investigate something with a ports-alike system,
either on *BSD, or Gentoo, or perhaps some other Linux distro.

> Now, I've started to use a fresh installed Debian and I've installed very
> many CPAN modules using CPAN in the default perl modules location.  What
> would you recommend me to do in this case? Can I just rename/delete the
> files and dirs installed into
>
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0
>
> and install them using local::lib?

If you installed all the modules under /usr/local then you should be pretty
OK; Debian deliberately keep that for local software installation, so no
package will put things there.

You could even keep installing things there if you want; it won't *break*
anything — it just won't give you too much value from the "Debian" part of the
equation either. ;)

At this point I would suggest one of two things:

1. Delete /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/* entirely, and use local::lib

2. Just keep using /usr/local to install stuff system-wide, and accept that
   this is potentially going to make the wonderful stuff people say about
   Debian less applicable to your machine.

        Daniel
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