Re: [CentOS-devel] perl and perl::IO conflict

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

BTW the conflict shows up as:

~ file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO.pm from install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

From CentOS 5 on this could be a non-issue, if external perl packages would put their stuff into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl which comes before /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 in @INC. That would leave you with the the man page problem, though and I don't know of a workaround against that.

But: The above doesn't work on 4 and 3, as those have site_perl much further down in @INC so you cannot override packages which are included in the perl package.

Ralph