Why would one need Software Collections? [LWN.net]

Why would one need Software Collections?

Posted Dec 28, 2012 12:53 UTC (Fri) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)
In reply to: Why would one need Software Collections? by amacater
Parent article: Fedora ponders Software Collections

FWIW, I went the opposite route. After installing Debian at work, I started bashing my head against the wall because of all the unavailable Perl modules (stuff like psgi and starman) or outdated (the Perl core itself, JSON::RPC stuck on the 0.9x branch, ...).

Switching to Fedora made all these problems go away.

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Why would one need Software Collections?

Posted Dec 28, 2012 13:22 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link] (1 responses)

cpan2deb is your friend in Debian.

Why would one need Software Collections?

Posted Dec 28, 2012 22:49 UTC (Fri) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link]

If you have the time to maintain the missing modules yourself, cpan2deb is indeed a solution.