Re^7: perlbrew and cpan

From perlbrew:

"By default, perlbrew builds and installs perls into $ENV{HOME}/perl5/perlbrew directory. To use a different directory, set this environment variable in your bashrc to the directory in your shell RC before sourcing perlbrew's RC."

They'd have to have deliberately made some very poor configuration changes for perlbrew to nuke a system perl.

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Re^8: perlbrew and cpan by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 07, 2014 at 16:01 UTC
perlbrew is quite safe, but the whole issue was about using `sudo cpan`. I am not sure that by pretending to be the superuser you still use the links and paths of yourself as a regular user. If all of a sudden `perl` no longer points to the perl installation in your home directory, but rather to the system perl, you could be in for a nasty surprise down the road. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^9: perlbrew and cpan by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 07, 2014 at 16:10 UTC
Faceplam. Ignore me. Of course, you are correct. I'll go back to sleep now.	[reply]