Back when I wrote a lot of Perl code, I limited myself to the debian packages, since they were tested and API stability was enforced by the debian team. It was

Back when I wrote a lot of Perl code, I limited myself to the debian packages, since they were tested and API stability was enforced by the debian team. It was missing a few packages, but they were either niche or low quality. CPAN was untested garbage by comparison. (In the same way that pip is today.)