I think I have a better chance to have this question answered here than in the CentOS community.

Testing a system I wrote in Perl on a freshly installed CentOS 7 system, it threw a 'not found' error for 'version.pm'. WTFO?.
I know! That is not Perl's fault. But, can someone from the CentOS community, tell me why a module that critical, is missing? Then, cpan is also missing.

I try to write using only core modules (it makes for more universal installs), but on CentOS 7, I have to do a 'yum install' before I can run the installer written in Perl.

It is always better to have seen your target for yourself, rather than depend upon someone else's description.

In reply to Why not include version.pm by Wiggins

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