Gabor Szabo wrote:

Lately I have also arrived to the conclusion that if you are not interested in bleeding edge Perl development then you should use only
the modules supplied by your OS or Perl vendor. For that having only
1000 modules is way too low.

A couple of years ago I reached the same conclusion. All of my Fedora systems now only have CPAN modules that are installed as RPMs.

I am using a wide range of Linux distros as I am a consultant and every client uses somethings else. I encounter missing modules on daily bases so I have no choice but to use CPAN.pm.

I also have this problem. Not many days go by without me needing a CPAN module that isn't pre-packaged into an RPM.

In those cases I often find that cpanspec works to whip up a quick RPM that that I can use. I don't know how many of those automatically generated RPMs would reach the standards required for inclusion in Fedora, but I'm slowly (manually!) making them available at

  http://rpm.mag-sol.com/

Cheers,

Dave...

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