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["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Shanahan [mailto:ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:30 PM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Perl and Perl Modules - YaST vs. CPAN(?)
> 
> * Marlier, Ian <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [09-26-05 16:07]:
> >
> > To wit: Perl has many, many modules.  Some have their current
versions
> > in RPM form; some have outdated versions in RPM form; some just have
no
> > version at all in RPM form.
> >
> > However, all are available by way of CPAN.
> >
> 
> I cannot tell you the _proper_ way, but I have had good luck *hunting*
> for specific modules this way:
> 
>   I needed Term::ReadLine for an app
>   I did rpm -qa|grep -i perl
> and looked at the rpm names which almost all read perl-module....
> then searched for
>   perl-TermReadLine
> 
> and found perl-TermReadLine-Gnu-1.14-2 via rpmseek.com


That was what I did until, one day....I went to build a perl app, which
happened to require HTML::Mason 0.28 or greater.  Now, HTML::Mason
wasn't available as a SuSE package.  Or rather, it was, but it was v.
0.13 of the module.  So I went and found an RPM, which, upon
installation, hosed most of perl (including YaST, which is based on
perl!), and generally turned a fairly straightforward project into a
massive debacle.

That was what led me to the "forget RPM, CPAN is my friend" mindset.

Now I'm trying to save myself from the wilderness :-)