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>>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> writes: Xavier> Wouldn't the problem with file name collisions/rewrites potentially Xavier> happen if packages were managed as in distros? The problem is that there's no promise that package A and B from the CPAN don't both install file C. So any naive packager/installer will fail. It takes *hand* tuning by the distro makers to get this to play well. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!Thread Previous | Thread Next