On Wed Jan 11 09:00:07 2006, MTHURN wrote:
Show quoted text> I disagree. By its very nature, CPANPLUS's configuration is NOT
> global, it is tied to the perl it was installed with; if you have
> more than one perl installed, you need more than one CPANPLUS
> configuration. In addition, a NON-global configuration allows
> individual users WITHOUT root permissions to use CPANPLUS to
> maintain their own private collections of modules. These are huge
> benefits which IMO completely outweigh any possible benefits of a
> global/root configuration.
I quite agree with this. Also, as a practical limitation: /etc is a debian
policy decision. Freebsd would use /usr/local/etc/ and so it continues
between many flavours of distributions.
Aside from the fact that not every distribution has a policy at all (where
would it go on VMS or win32 or cygwin?), and that EU::MM doesn't appear
to have an install directive that uses the 'correct' policy, the directory the
file would end up in, wouldn't be in your perl include path either.
It seems that the specific downsides of this approach outweigh the
benefits. Luckily, most vendors will alter packages to suit their
specific policies, so the debian package for CPANPLUS should do
exactly what you as a debian user would expect.
-- Jos
