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I tend to agree. It's unnecessarily difficult to set up perl so you can install modules in a sane manner. That said, you don't really need any 'brews until you're ready to start installing modules.
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Re^5: Complete novice in need of guidance
by stevieb (Canon) on Oct 03, 2016 at 16:21 UTC

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    To further that, both perlbrew and berrybrew allow you to make copies of instances, so that you can do this:

    berrybrew install 5.24.0_64
berrybrew switch 5.24.0_64

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    ... do a whole bunch of stuff, install all of your favourite modules etc, then:

    berrybrew clone 5.24.0_64 configured_perl_template

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    ... do more stuff on the 5.24.0_64 instance, and break it horribly, then:

    berrybrew remove 5.24.0_64

berrybrew clone configured_perl_template dev_instance_1

berrybrew switch dev_instance_1

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    Then break this instance, re-clone the template again, and you start with a 100% configured instance to your liking repeatedly.

    That example was berrybrew, but perlbrew has the same functionality. I wrote clone into berrybrew so I could have separate instances, pre-configured, to separate development testing, and for keeping separate projects separate, under custom named instances.

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      :) all so silly

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