Worthless updates

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> said:
> Cpan is being used to keep a perl-installation "current".

Trying to mix CPAN and RPM managed perl modules is a recipie for
disaster already.  That's not a good reason for a meaningless update.

> > I update when there's a bugfix that
> > affects my platform (a bugfix that only affects perl 5.11 users doesn't
> > affect F11 users) or when there's a new feature I need.
> Wait until you will want to address a "serious/critical" bugfix to a 
> perl-module which carries a dependency on a perl-module you haven't kept 
> in sync with CPAN

That's a good reason to update the depended-upon modules.  Can you show
a case where a module version that was only updated for compatibility
with a newer version of perl was required?

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.