Controlchan and MIME

[Alexander Bartolich]

Grant Taylor wrote:
> [...]
> As far as an additional dependency in Perl, CPAN does wonders to handle 
> it for you.  As far as installing CPAN, it's not that big a deal (from 
> what I remember) and it will solve a lot of problem or at the very least 
> make a lot of other Perl maintenance much nicer.

CPAN is completely independent from the package system of the operating system.

Package maintainers creating .rpm or .deb cannot use it. If additional Perl
modules are required they have to ship a corresponding .rpm or .deb.
In this case that has already happend to some extend. Debian ships MIME::Parser
as part of libmime-tools-perl, Fedora as perl-MIME-tools.noarch.

If you still use CPAN you can very easily get into dependency and update problems.
Especially if the OS is conservative (i.e. any kind of long-term support on servers).

Ciao

     Alexander.