On 4/7/10 2:42 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
More serious question about ports. What about needing a newer version of a perl module than is in packages?
The first step would be to move to -current, because -stable must keep the versions it is published with, and check the ports@ list.
... I like the idea of creating my own package instead of...
It's a good idea out of laziness, if for no other reason, because manually trying to mix-and-match applications both with a package manager and from elsewhere will eventually return at some inconvenient time to bite hard on some very soft parts.
/Lars