On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: > On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only from CentOS and the rest >> from CPAN > If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and EPEL and > avoid CPAN entirely. if you absolutely need something thats not in > core or EPEL, I'd use cpanspec to build an rpm, and use that to install > on your production systems. > Interesting. I will look at cpanspec. Didn't know that one. I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN consistently built a very tidy environment. I do agree, though. Install from as few repo's as possible. CentOS and EPEL are good choices.
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