[Chicago-talk] FreeBSD. Ports collection vs CPAN?
Jason A. Crome
perl at cromedome.net
Wed Jan 4 11:13:27 PST 2006
Personally, for the modules I work with, I find that the ports
collection either doesn't have what I am looking for, or the version
that they have available always lags behind the most current in
CPAN. You can't go wrong by continuing to install modules directly
from CPAN.
The ports are however useful when you have something else you like to
install in ports that relies on something you don't have installed.
The needed module just gets installed, and you don't even have to
think about it.
Good luck, and have a blast. FreeBSD is a great OS.
-- Jason
On Jan 4, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Ed Pigg wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm starting to build a FreeBSD 6.0 server for
> development/experimentation purposes. There are quite a few perl
> modules in the ports collection. What are the pros and cons of using
> the ports collection for adding/updating modules vs CPAN. On Mac OSX
> I've always used CPAN. Any thoughts or advise is welcome.
>
> Ed Pigg
> ed at questinformation dot com
>
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