Jim Perrin wrote:
> > In fact, the quality of the perl-related rpms from Red Hat is
> > the main reason I'm not using RHEL and using CentOS
>
> Your logic is confusing to me. It does not resemble what I would
> consider to be rational thought.
I think I understand what he was trying to say. When I built my last
system, I decided to go with rpms for everything. It worked great
until I got to the Perl modules and then it fell apart.
Every time I have tried to install Perl modules from rpms, it quickly
evolves into a massive game of "find the missing dependency". Either
the module I want can't be found anywhere, or when I do find it, it
depends on a module that can't be found.
I finally gave up and decided to use CPAN for Perl modules. It is
simple, and work amazingly well. It does cause some annoyance when you
get other rpms that have dependencies on Perl modules, but that is a
problem that I have only seen once or twice.
There is a program that will create rpms from CPAN. I considered it
and then rejected it as being WAY too much trouble for the number of
modules that I typically deal with.
--
Bowie
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