perl irritations

[mark]

Steve Phillips wrote:
> m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>>> My guess is that the -devel package split goes back as far as your
>>> version.
>>
>> The problem is that this is my firewall/router. I do NOT WANT a gcc on 
>> it. Am I going to need to put it on, and take it off, every time I 
>> need an update from CPAN? And to remove all *-devel rpms?
> 
> erm, then why are you trying to use a tool that relies on compilers and 
> development tools being present ?
> 
> Would it not be better to put CPAN on a dev box and then use that to 
> compile the required perl modules, make them into packages and 
> distribute the binaries to the firewall instead ?

Um, the firewall/router's running RH 9 - specifically, since I want the 2.4 
kernel, as it's running on old hardware, and I don't *want* what they did for 
2.6, with scheduling improvements specific to multiple CPU's/cores, and which I 
read a couple of years ago disimproved performance on single CPU systems. All 
my other systems are significantly newer.

	mark