I am running CentOS 5.3.  I thought it was just going to be two packages...
perl-MP3-Tag and perl-Unix-Process... then today, it added 5 more.

When I go to look for the dependencies, I am lucky if I can find one for Fedora 
11,
and even if I do find that one, it won't install because of other dependency 
problems.
As an example, I found perl-Exception-Class-1.29.1 ... but it was for PLD, not 
CentOS.
When I restrict the search to be for CentOS/RHEL, the most recent version I 
find is
1.24... from the rpmforge repository!  I can find the perl(IPC::System::Simple) 
dependency,
but it's for Fedora 11, and to install that one on CentOS 5.3 has all kinds of 
other
dependency issues that cannot be resolved easily.

PLEASE... when you build these updated packages and start requiring new stuff, 
don't
release them as part of a general release without their dependencies.

This is my most recent dependency resolution problem from yum... and that 
doesn't include
what I was able to resolve for perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm 
(required a --force
to upgrade and then a separate -e for the also obsoleted perl-Compress-Zlib):

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-Unix-Process.noarch 0:1.3101-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IPC::System::Simple) for package: 
perl-Unix-Process
---> Package perl-POE-Component-Client-SMTP.noarch 0:0.21-1.el5.rf set to be 
updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(POE::Filter::Transparent::SMTP) for package: perl-POE-Component-Client-SMTP
---> Package perl-JSON-Any.noarch 0:1.21-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl-JSON-Any-alternative = 1.21 for package: 
perl-JSON-Any
---> Package perl-Parse-Eyapp.noarch 0:1.147-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Test::LectroTest::Generator) for package: 
perl-Parse-Eyapp
---> Package perl-Object-InsideOut.noarch 0:3.55-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Exception::Class) >= 1.29 for package: 
perl-Object-InsideOut
---> Package perl-MP3-Tag.noarch 0:1.11-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Normalize::Text::Normalize_Fields) for package: 
perl-MP3-Tag
---> Package perl-Net-DNS-SEC.noarch 0:0.15-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl(MIME::Base32) for package: perl-Net-DNS-SEC
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
perl-POE-Component-Client-SMTP-0.21-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has 
depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(POE::Filter::Transparent::SMTP) is needed by package perl-POE-Component-Client-SMTP-0.21-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
perl-JSON-Any-1.21-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl-JSON-Any-alternative = 1.21 is needed by package perl-JSON-Any-1.21-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
perl-Unix-Process-1.3101-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(IPC::System::Simple) is needed by package perl-Unix-Process-1.3101-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
perl-MP3-Tag-1.11-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Normalize::Text::Normalize_Fields) is needed by package perl-MP3-Tag-1.11-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
perl-Object-InsideOut-3.55-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Exception::Class) >= 1.29 is needed by package perl-Object-InsideOut-3.55-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
perl-Net-DNS-SEC-0.15-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(MIME::Base32) is needed by package perl-Net-DNS-SEC-0.15-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
perl-Parse-Eyapp-1.147-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Test::LectroTest::Generator) is needed by package perl-Parse-Eyapp-1.147-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(POE::Filter::Transparent::SMTP) is needed by package perl-POE-Component-Client-SMTP-0.21-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Exception::Class) >= 1.29 is needed by package perl-Object-InsideOut-3.55-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Test::LectroTest::Generator) is needed by package perl-Parse-Eyapp-1.147-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(IPC::System::Simple) is needed by package perl-Unix-Process-1.3101-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(MIME::Base32) is needed by package perl-Net-DNS-SEC-0.15-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl-JSON-Any-alternative = 1.21 is needed by package perl-JSON-Any-1.21-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Normalize::Text::Normalize_Fields) is needed by package perl-MP3-Tag-1.11-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)

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