I'm trying to find out the "proper" or "correct" way to install packages.

Specifically, I'd like to install perl. Actually, I think I've got it
installed ... I just want to make sure I did it correctly.

What I did was:

	su
	cd /usr/local
	tar -xvf perl-5.00404.tgz

It seems to have put all the files in the correct place. The puzzling thing
was that it also added the following files to the /usr/local directory:

	+CONTENTS
	+COMMENT
	+DESC
	+MTREE_DIRS

So, maybe there's a more appropriate way to install packages. Comments?

Thanks

	-- Mark


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Mark de Jong                Macintosh Development              mdj@home.com