On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:36 +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
Maybe you were referring to CPAN which is a perl-specific alternate solution to packages. In that case I agree, I don't like it either and just don't use it.
Yes, I was referring to CPAN.
However the RedHat / Fedora Core package manager was awfully inadequate, offering no search functionality at all (<flame>they probably think the dumbed-down categories remove the need for it</flame>).
The package manager does not do that. Did you try http://rpmfind.net? Also, the packages should be available via yum (most likely at DAG http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/rpmforge.php)
In fact I did not find *any* perl package listed in RedHat's package manager!
And herein lies the problem: hate it or love it, it's the most used distribution, and it should work on it first and foremost. If it doesn't, we have a problem.
On a slightly different note, I think you are comparing apples to oranges: you want rpm to provide search equivalent to what an indexing site does for Debian. It shouldn't and there are such sites out there.