The way I handle this is to use the system packaging tools (yast in your case, apt in mine) to install the distro's packages if possible.

If the module I need either isn't packaged by the distro, or if I want a newer version, I install via cpan, but as my own non-privileged userid.

When you run CPAN as yourself, the questions tell you how to provide additional args to 'perl Makefile.PL' (PREFIX=foo) or 'Build.PL' (--install_base foo) to install in your home directory. I tend to put things in $HOME/install/perl.

Then you tell your shell to tell perl (when run as you) to find these modules: 

export PERL5LIB = $PERL5LIB:$HOME/install/perl/share/perl
export PERL5LIB = $PERL5LIB:$HOME/install/perl/lib/perl

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and you can then have the best of both worlds. This won't allow other users (e.g. whatever userid your web server runs as) on your box to run the modules, but you can fix that by setting PERL5LIB to refer to your homedir install in that environment too (and check the file permissions work out).

This also works nicely in the multiple-machine one-NFS-homedir setup.

In reply to Re: yast vs cpan by jbert
in thread yast vs cpan by elnino2007

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