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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 29, 2008 14:59 UTC (Fri) by spot (guest, #15640)
In reply to: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) by epa
Parent article: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

That's not entirely true. You can install to a rpm root in your homedir, it just won't be able to resolve dependencies sanely, and you'd need to add directories to your path.


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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Posted Sep 8, 2008 20:34 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Yes... no easy way. And all RPMs, in practice, are built to install into / and nowhere else. It is a shame they are not relocatable.

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