On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:22:13 -0800
Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 2/20/22 21:00, Fulko Hew wrote:
> Thanks for pointing out that app, but I fail to see how having me
> make an RPM for a
> Fedora-unsupported module avoids the problem of incompatibilities
> between newer
> Fedora sources packages and locally sourced packages (or locally
> CPAN installed modules)
> Or am I missing something?
The benefit is that it's managed by the package manager, so it's easy
to cleanly add, remove, and update it. The alternative methods dump
the files in various places and when a problem happens, you have to
figure out where those problem files are.
A big advantage is that the package manager will complain if you
attempt an incompatible update. You will know right away that you
need to fix something (even though DNF’s error messages can be hard to
decipher).
I learned this the hard way and haven’t used CPAN since. Cpansec is
great (as is cpan2port).
Jim