[Mageia-discuss] mandriva rpms versus cpan versus ?

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due to lack of research on my part i now find that there appear to be no 
mageia1 rpms for apache-gallery and libapache-mod-mp3, i'm sure i could use 
cpan but then i'm mixing source compiles with rpms, i've read of but never 
tried making rpms from cpan using various utils, are these reliable? what 
about mandriva rpms, which distro should i look to borrow from, any advice 
welcome!

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