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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:34:52AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> At 07:43 PM 03/03/02 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school
> >project so am installing them directly with the CPAN shell, until I
> >figure out if its my local technique that is the problem.
> >
> >I wonder if doing this without dh-make-perl, sort of behind debians
> >back, will cause me some grief in some way later?
>
> Coming from the perl side, I'd wonder more about if not using the standard
> method to install modules will cause problems later down the road.
I use it more to register the package with the debian package
system, and to generate a .deb that can be put in our local
repository and properly tracked.
Then again, I'm responsible for about 100 servers, with debian
slowly growing in number.
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