Re: best way to install modules in your home directory?

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The first half of your problem can be solved by not using sudo, but really become root (su -). Then root will use his own home directory.

An even better solution is not to install anything with cpan directly, but build a package that is native to your operating system. For Debian dh-make-perl is really useful, and very good usable in Testing (aka Lenny), I'm sure there are similar utilities for other distributions and Unixes (for example cpan2dist from CPANPLUS).

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Re^2: best way to install modules in your home directory? by pvbcharon (Beadle) on May 27, 2008 at 06:56 UTC
Gentoo has g-cpan (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/g-cpan.xml) which takes a CPAN package and wraps an ebuild around it. Thus all packages installed that way are manageable via portage.	[reply]

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