Colin J. Williams wrote:
Stephen Walton wrote:
Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I find CPAN counter-intuitive, hard to use, and hard to keep track of in an RPM-based environment.
Debian has a nice package management system with a GUI (aptitude) to go on top of the basic apt. This keeps track of and enforces pakage dependencies.
So does yum, and CPAN itself for that matter, but that isn't really what I was raising. If I use cpan to install Perl::MyPackage::MyModule it doesn't show up when I do 'rpm -qa'. I can almost always say 'yum install perl-MyPackage-MyModule' though with my repository collection. Perhaps my main complaint is that the CPAN divisions are just too fine grained. Disk space is way cheaper than my time, and I'd rather get everything I need in one go.