Comments regarding perlbrew_0.16-1_i386.changes

[Alessandro Ghedini]

Hello Alexander,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:26:23PM +0000, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> I'm not that familiar with perl, but by looking at the package description,
> I'm wondering how perlbrew works.  Does it download stuff from external
> services?  In that case it should go to contrib.

It downloads the perl sources from CPAN (or another mirror), and then it 
compiles and installs perl in the user's $HOME directory. It also allows 
the user to manage multiple perl installations (the ones installed by 
perlbrew itself, but also system wide installations, as the Debian-provided 
package is).

Given that this package would be suitable for contrib, how the perl package 
itself (with the cpan executable), python-setuptools (with easy_install), 
python-pip (with pip), python-virtualenv (which does the exact thing as 
perlbrew does but for python), luarocks (with luarocks) and rubygems* (with
gem*) are not? They are all softwares that download and install "stuff from 
external services" but are in main anyway. What makes perlbrew different?

Cheers (and thanks for your work) :)

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