On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 09:46 +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> >
> > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> > > total 12
> > > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 23 09:24 5.8.3
> > > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 30 07:25 5.8.5
> > > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 30 07:25 man
> >
> > How can that happen?
>
> The only reason I can find is: install perl 5.8.6 and then install p5*
> _binary_ packages built against an older version of perl.  And IIUC,
> this may exactly be the situation in Jeremy's boxes.  Am I wrong?

Exactly. And the package dependencies allow it.

We should not use specific versions for the modules. In many cases, the
modules will still work.

And if any modules do not work, then the package dependencies (hopefully)
can be more fine-tuned specifically for them.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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