Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > Cpan is being used to keep a perl-installation "current". Trying to mix CPAN and RPM managed perl modules is a recipie for disaster already. That's not a good reason for a meaningless update. > > I update when there's a bugfix that > > affects my platform (a bugfix that only affects perl 5.11 users doesn't > > affect F11 users) or when there's a new feature I need. > Wait until you will want to address a "serious/critical" bugfix to a > perl-module which carries a dependency on a perl-module you haven't kept > in sync with CPAN That's a good reason to update the depended-upon modules. Can you show a case where a module version that was only updated for compatibility with a newer version of perl was required? -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
