Once upon a time, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org said:
Several of those perl packages are mine, dating back to the RHEL 6 beta, when we needed them for full arch support. What we did at the time was to rebuild the exact same package as RHEL to put in EPEL. I appreciate that that's not current policy and we'll do it differently for EPEL-7.
I think it is still current policy; as another follow-up to that package list said, it needed to be checked for exactly what you said.
I'm sure I've suggested this before but I don't see why the epel-release package can't add a "cost" of >1000 (e.g. 1001) to the epel repos so that identical packages would always be picked up from RHEL in preference to EPEL.
That should be looked at as well, but there's no point in maintaining a package in EPEL that won't ever be used.