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in reply to Building a Development Environment on Ubuntu

Nice! Some comments:

Updates: To clarify, sudo aptitude build-dep perl only ensures that you have everything installed that you would need in order to compile perl (c-compiler, make, ...). It is not a way to maintain multiple perl versions on your system.

The arguments for a separate /home partition are good so indeed, someone following this guide may wish to consider /, /home, and swap. For further information check out this Linux Partitioning mini-FAQ. Especially the "Why Partition at All?" section.

Further commentary on gubbins: Indeed the gubbins should no longer be necessary on a modern system, however, I would argue that very few people actually mess with them as they do no harm. If they offend you mightily, feel free to remove them but they will pop back up whenever you re-install perl.

Good Day,
    Dean