So, we go through all the trouble to have separate core, vendor and site_lib directories, but vendors like Ubuntu still manage to screw things up?

If you had read the comment, you would realize that it is not a matter of "screwing things up". Instead, it is an acknowledgement that the operating system uses perl for a lot of administrative work.

In that vein, it is useful for the system perl environment to be relatively static (including expected versions) while the development environment can be more fluid.

On my system (FC12), the "system" perl is v10.0.0. The "development" perl is v10.0.1. You will find that if you update perl via CPAN or CPANPLUS that some of the desired updates are actually dependent on v10.0.1. I do not want to compromise the system operation (or do exhaustive tests) simply to save ~250M by not having a separate, custom version of perl.

Hope this helps.

In reply to Re^3: Newbie needs help installing DateTime packages by proceng
in thread Newbie needs help installing DateTime packages by peterv6

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