Re^2: Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN

[Monk::Thomas]

There is a package 'libtest-simple-perl' (v1.001) for Ubuntu.

@Weebo: Why don't you simply 'aptitude install libtest-simple-perl' instead of manually building the CPAN-version? Do you ~need~ the most recent CPAN version? Why don't you use Test::More right from the start? It's quite likely you will end up using it at some point anyway...

@toolic: The package libtest-simple-perl is a bit strange because usually core modules are not packaged separately.(At least the ones i found useful. Probably someone is going to point out at least 6 other core-packages a microsecond after posting this. ;) ) For the record: Test::More is NOT packaged separately.

[Weebo]

I used CPAN because it was described to me in an installation manual for some perl dependent software and that's jsut what I'm used to. Before now it hadn't given me any problems so I kept a "If it isn't broken..." attitude towards it.

[Monk::Thomas]

personal opionion / your motives might vary (and that's totally okay!)

I must confess I almost never bother to install something directly from CPAN. (Hey you guys over there, stop raising a pyre!) I'm just too lazy to regularly check for updates and just let the operating system handle it instead. (Actually I'm also too lazy to update manually and schedule it automatically instead.)

If there's a module that's not packaged (or the packaged version is too old) then I reconsider whether that module is important enough to be worth the trouble to regularly check for updates / bugfixes and keep it up do date. Few are.