On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/14/2010 1:16 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> >> >> Personally I've banned Perl from the network primarily because of the >> maintenance disaster that is CPAN. > > And your perfectly maintained public source of equivalent functionality > is in what language? > > But, you should rarely if ever use CPAN code directly in Centos for the > same reasons you wouldn't drop a stock upstream kernel every few days. > Most of what you are likely to need are packaged - and maintained - in > EPEL or rpmforge. :) Thank goodness for CPAN2RPM. I use it quite often for the occasional package that is not in the default repos. As to Perl.. though it still is my preferred language for getting things done (mainly because I understand it that I first think out problems in Perl then convert to other languages), I have seen some bad, really bad Perl code..