[Chicago-talk] FreeBSD. Ports collection vs CPAN?

[Jason A. Crome]

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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