Just some ideas for upcoming MailScanner releases

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Wed Sep 5 13:49:54 IST 2007


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Doc Schneider wrote:

> Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the
> Problem wrote:
>> 1)  USe cpan instead of perl packages
>
> There are a lot of folks here who use RPM based OS's. And it really is a
> lot easier just to install an RPM then have to setup CPAN. And lots of
> times CPAN installs break things like yum install/update ... Not putting
> your idea down just this has been talked about on this list before.
>

And some of us just don't trust CPAN enough to let it run amok on our 
systems installing whatever it wants.  Yes, installing packages piecemeal
is a PITA but I get to see it compile and pass its tests and I have
control over whether it gets installed or not.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College


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