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Re: Ovid (Score:2)
As a user of an rpm-based distribution, it's annoying when there are a relatively small number of CPAN rpms available (and they are generally of older versions of modules).
Do you have any feeling
Re: Ovid (Score:2)
I looked at creating a module CPANPLUS::Dest::MDK to generate MDK-compliant RPMs while installing. I hadn't much time, but the first problems I've found while coding this were the limitations of rpmbuild itself. But CPANPLUS already solves the problem of fetching all dependencies from the CPAN.
From the OS packager point of view, the problems are to generate RPMs compliant with the distribution guidelines (e.g. they go in vendor_perl), easily rebuildable, with correct dependencies. An end-user would have different needs (e.g. the use of the vendor_perl directory would be inappropriate, and the release naming scheme might be different, in order to avoid conflicts with the vendor's RPMs.) Hence, a need for customisation.
How many CPAN modules are there in Fedora ? MDK 10.1 provides about 500 of them.
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Re: Ovid (Score:2)
It depends which repositories you point yum at. I have just over 100 rpms installed with names including the string 'perl'. And there only seem to be about half a dozen more at the repositories that I use.