I prefer the convinence of CPAN, but enjoy having everything packaged (RPM). So, I use both with CPAN2RPM. It downloads the package from CPAN and compiles it into an RPM package... usually called perl-XXXXX-XXXX. http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ Regards, Trevor. www.gnuguy.com -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of cjlesh Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:51 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Perl CPAN vs. RPM? Hey all: I'm taking the first steps in learning perl, and had a question about CPAN. I see that some packagers (DAG, fedora pre-extras, etc...) have RPMs of things I could also install from the commandline with CPAN. Which is the "better" way? -cjl
