On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:25 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>
> > I would stringly prefer to stay on 5.10 from squeeze if that is
> doable, manual backporting of such a huge package like perl with its
> millions of forward and reverse dependencies will cause no end of
> pain :(
> > Running the (available) postgresql 9.0 backport is a breeze compared
> to that however.
>
> Well, if I could compile 5.12, I'd install it in /usr/local/. No need
> to replace the system Perl at all. That's how I generally work with
> this stuff: Leave the system Perl for system tasks; build my own Perl
> for the apps I build.
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