On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dave Cross wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
That is why I think we need to somehow make Red Hat understand that
they should not add CPAN distributions to the perl package.
It's not Red Hat that does this. The standard Perl distribution contains
modules that are also distributed independently from CPAN. They are
known as "dual-life" modules.
Right. But the fact that they are part of the perl RPM and not packaged as
seperate RPMs makes it hard to replace them. Nothing forces Red Hat to
ship them with the perl RPM.
In the past I thought it was because Red Hat did not want those modules to
be replaced (given they have to support the system) and the default module
path ctually confirmed that.
But since RHEL5 they allow to replace modules from site_perl because they
changed the order, so there goes the bit of reverse psychology :) So I
would have expected them to package them seperately so that at least it is
more obvious from the package database that a certain RPM was in
fact replaced.
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