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My friend Jeff woke me up today because I IM'd him late last night saying "I have this great idea and I need to talk with someone about it!" This isn't that idea, but another one Jeff suggested. We got to talking about the problem of CPAN dependencies. He mentioned that Python modules don't really have many dependencies, but they're not very complex either. CPAN modules can do some really complex things because they can let some other module do the work, but that leads to a long, and fragile, dependency chain. We talked about some of the attempts to solve that and why they suck.