Brian Mathis wrote: > Because when you package something using a distro's packaging system, > you can start to have other programs that depend on it install them > automatically using the package system. Also, installing from CPAN, > while very easy to do, does not keep track or even know about a > distro's package management system. So if you wanted to remove it > later, it is not easy to do, and you could easily run into problems > where you have installed one version from CPAN, then another package > requires that module, but because you installed via CPAN it doesn't > know that, and will then install an older version, overwriting your > CPAN-installed version. > Just two more cents: No one mentioned that CPAN is a source distribution and cygwin is a binary distribution. For those modules that require compilation, pre-packaging means the module can be easily installed on a system that doesn't have a compiler installed.
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