Python needs a CPyAN

[Gerhard Haering]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:41:18PM +0100, bruno modulix wrote:
> Michael Ströder a écrit :
> >Peter Hickman wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Just today we required a module that was not installed on our system.
> >>
> >>sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Data::Pager'
> >>
> >>And it was installed with all it's dependencies.
> >
> >
> >I'd rather call that a security and maintenance nightmare...
> 
> <aol>
> We had some program (can't remember if it was spamassassin or an 
> antivir, I'm not the sysadmin !-) gone mad and all our customers mails 
> blocked for a full day because of such a wonderfull update of a perl 
> module...
> </aol>

Well, could have happened with a Debian [*] or *BSD, etc. update as well,
right?

-- Gerhard

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