Re: Worthless updates

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Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Cpan is being used to keep a perl-installation "current". Running it on
> Fedora (or other system which come with a vendor supplied perl),
> replaces all "non-current" perl-modules with those which are marked
> "current" in CPAN.

We don't support third-party packages, and even less third-party non-
packages like CPAN.

> Or differently: If we don't keep perl-modules in Fedora's perl "CPAN
> current", we sooner or later will not be able to add other perl-modules
> to Fedora or to upgrade other perl-modules, which e.g. carry
> hard-dependencies to these "not upgraded modules" to Fedora

If they require a minimum version which didn't actually change anything 
instead of the actual minimum required version, they're broken and need to 
be fixed.

        Kevin Kofler

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