On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 16:05, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@gmail.com> wrote:
And yes, I was (and always have) installed additional modules
via CPAN where Fedora doesn't have those modules. (Trouble is that
even when Fedora can deliver one of those packages, they aren't
named the same and so it's hard to find what package to install.)
And then... What can you do when Fedora doesn't have it packaged?
Ignore CPAN. I think not. My gut feeling today is. Why doesn't
Fedora distribute stuff that doesn't break CPAN?
(hoping this can raise wider awareness of the GENERAL problem with packages and packaging on Linux)
From everything you wrote, the problem may be more like "why does CPAN exist, complicating things in this way?"
For me it definitely is. To see why, just remember that CPAN is just one of tens of mutually unaware packaging systems that together make the whole concepts of distribution and repositories moot
Distributions, repositories and packaging formats like .deb or .rpm, and all their management tools, where invented exactly to save users the nightmare to deal with many different packaging systems, one per language. I used CPAN a lot in the 90s. then it, and all its equivalents became more and more of a burden, making the very concept of distros less and less meaningful, and useful, every year. Now, I sometimes think that CPAN, encouraging Ruby, Python, Java etc... to do the same, may have done more harm than good.
Everything else I could say on this topic is already here:
Marco