[Discuss] perl/Tk

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

On 2/27/2015 5:33 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> First of all, see if you can abandon cpan, and use packages that are
> built in to your yum repository.  Much more reliable (and faster.)

Yep. If you cannot avoid perl then avoid CPAN at all costs. It will 
screw you over. Packages in CPAN will break, and everything that you 
depend on in CPAN will go away with your next major OS upgrade.

EPEL is a good place to start for packages that aren't in RHEL or its 
derivatives. The only times that I've had problems with EPEL is 
conflicts with Scientific Linux and solving those is as simple as an 
exclude line in my epel.repo files.

-- 
Rich P.