I previously asked a question about packaging up perl modules as (Fedora) RPMs and got a lot of answers as to this being very hard and scary, and you wouldn't want to do this. However, after looking about there seem to be several different tools to do just this (although I haven't yet tried).

The most intriguing of these seems to be cpan2dist, which relies on the CPANPLUS code to create Fedora style RPMs.

I'd imagine that one problem is "mixing distro packages" (i.e. RPM hell), which results when mixing Fedora RPMs installed via YUM with CPAN modules. However, does cpan2dist solve these problems?

Does anyone understand the various types of problems that can arise and how to lessen them? Are there some huge outstanding issues to the way Fedora builds their packages (not sure why they don't just suck them out of CPAN and do some sort of autobuild procedure)?

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