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[Discuss] perl/Tk



Ignoring Ned's inflammatory rant, he has a kernel of sense -

> if you can abandon cpan, and use packages that are built in to your yum repository.

As a Perl pro, i agree with this much with Ned's rant -- this is very
good advice for C-based binary extensions (including library wrappers
such as Tk), when the Perl it's to be used with is from OS Yum/Deb/...
repo originally.  You really really want all the C files built with
the same toolchain and flags, and a single build system is easiest way
there.

[ If you build your own Perl from sources (not very hard really),
building from CPAN works fine with it. If one is going to have lots of
custom built modules, having a local perl is recommended, if only to
avoid a sys upgrade updating /bin/perl and obsoleting all your local
built modules !   For pure-Perl modules - without C/lib* dependencies
- building from CPAN works fine. ]


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