[NTLUG:Discuss] has anyone used Alexandria?

[Stuart Johnston]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 08:49, Lance Simmons wrote:
> 
>>Dependency problems of the sort you describe are what led me a couple of
>>years ago to move to Debian.
> 
> 
> I don't think any distro will catch up to what the Debian community has
> built up around Perl, Python, Ruby and other scripting languages with
> their extensive module sets.
> 
> I'm a Fedora user and I have to admit that.  Once you start entering
> scripting language-specific modules, it becomes a manual PITA.  Red Hat
> tries to include a number in Fedora Core, but it's still not the same.

You ever used RPMPAN?  RPM packages of Perl modules built nightly by "an 
infinite number of monkeys".

http://rpmpan.sourceforge.net/

I've never used it myself but it seems like an interesting idea.

Stuart Johnston