perl packages duplicating main functionality

[Jan Rękorajski]

Hi,
Is there any real reason why we have a lot of perl packages that
duplicate modules/functionality of main perl distribution?

I'm asking because I'm going to remove all of those from Th, because they
cause build problems and incompatibilities (vim vs perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS,
apache-mod_perl vs perl-Module-CoreList).

List of culprits below:

perl-Archive-Tar-1.82-1.noarch
perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.93-1.noarch
perl-bignum-0.29-1.noarch
perl-CGI-3.63-1.noarch
perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1.noarch
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.048-1.x86_64
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.052-1.x86_64
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.048-1.x86_64
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.054-1.x86_64
perl-Convert-Scalar-1.04-2.x86_64
perl-CPAN-1.9402-1.noarch
perl-Devel-PPPort-3.20-1.x86_64
perl-Digest-1.17-1.noarch
perl-Digest-MD5-2.52-1.x86_64
perl-Digest-SHA-5.70-1.x86_64
perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280202-1.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280205-1.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-Command-1.17-1.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.54-1.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.62-2.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.60-1.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.22_06-1.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.15-1.noarch
perl-File-Temp-0.22-1.noarch
perl-Filter-1.39-1.x86_64
perl-Filter-Simple-0.88-1.noarch
perl-I18N-LangTags-0.35-2.noarch
perl-IO-1.25-2.x86_64
perl-IO-Compress-2.048-1.noarch
perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.noarch
perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-1.noarch
perl-IPC-Cmd-0.76-1.noarch
perl-libnet-1.22-1.noarch
perl-Locale-Codes-3.24-2.noarch
perl-Locale-Maketext-1.21-1.noarch
perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21-1.noarch
perl-Math-BigInt-1.89-1.noarch
perl-Math-BigRat-0.26-1.noarch
perl-Memoize-1.02-1.noarch
perl-MIME-Base64-3.13-1.x86_64
perl-Module-Build-0.3800-2.noarch
perl-Module-CoreList-2.60-1.noarch
perl-Module-Load-0.22-1.noarch
perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.46-1.noarch
perl-Module-Pluggable-4.0-1.noarch
perl-parent-0.225-1.noarch
perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.4402-1.noarch
perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.4404-1.noarch
perl-PathTools-3.33-1.x86_64
perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-2.noarch
perl-Pod-Parser-1.38-2.noarch
perl-Pod-Simple-3.19-1.noarch
perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.23_03-2.x86_64
perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.25-1.x86_64
perl-Storable-2.30-1.x86_64
perl-Switch-2.16-1.noarch
perl-Sys-Syslog-0.29-1.x86_64
perl-Term-ANSIColor-2.02-1.noarch
perl-Test-Harness-3.25-2.noarch
perl-Test-Simple-0.98-1.noarch
perl-Text-Balanced-2.02-1.noarch
perl-Tie-File-0.98-1.noarch
perl-Tie-RefHash-1.39-2.noarch
perl-Time-HiRes-1.9721-1.x86_64
perl-Time-HiRes-1.9725-1.x86_64
perl-Time-Piece-1.20-1.x86_64
perl-version-0.99-1.x86_64

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Jan Rękorajski                                 | PLD/Linux
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