<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:40 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have there been known instances of a major python/perl/ruby version update in an OS update (as opposed to upgrade)?</blockquote></div><br>That's less the problem than installing a later version of some module that doesn't work with whatever Apple is doing with perl/python/ruby. I've had the "joy" of this on Linux a couple times (notably, a Perl module version required by my employer's tooling broke SuSE's X11 configuration tool), and helped someone un**** their Debian system after they manually installed a Perl module that broke dpkg.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">At this point, the strong recommendation from *all* the upstream folks on this is never touch the OS install except by OS tools; make a separate installation if you want to install additional modules or different module versions than are in the OS package manager. MacPorts adheres to this.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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