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telemachus
<blockquote><i>Hm, that bug was addressed, at least on CentOS 5.2 by Karabir Singh and RH released a fix too - 18 months ago... I saw that blog when it originally came out.</i></blockquote>
<p>Absolutely: CentOS, Red Hat and company made the necessary fixes (after a blogger raised hell). But my point is that the fixes for [http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274|the <i>Perl</i> problem were available in November 2007], and the fix only made it into these distros in August 2008 (or later). That's not good enough, and that's why I don't like being dependent on a vendor's Perl.</p>
<p>I'm not even picking on Red Hat <i>per se</i> - feel free to mention Debian and ssh keys, if you like. I just feel that if I have to do a lot of work with Perl (or Ruby or what-have-you), I want the control of compiling my own. As an added bonus, in my experience, a local Perl plus a very simple cron job involving [http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Mini/|CPAN::Mini] has made my life with modules entirely pain free.</p>
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