Installing Perl 5.6.1 from source on Debian

[Michael G Schwern]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:05:18PM +0000, Russell Matbouli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:45:09PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > You won't get more than the occasional papercut.  I run it on my
> > laptop (a Powerbook no less) and haven't had a non-self inflicted
> > wound in a long time.
> 
> It's not that I don't like to have bleeding edge (it is necessary
> sometimes...) it's just that I lack the bandwidth (time?) to do this on
> a regular basis... Anyone who ever complains about Debian got caught by
> using unstable.
> 
> Yup, I've seen your powerbook. One of the black ones that people still
> prefer for some reason... Tibooks are way too expensive too...

I think the reason is because its already paid for.


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