On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 08:52, Marc Powell wrote:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
(but using CPAN to update perl will break things)
I use CPAN all the time and haven't had any problems. Are you saying this because yum/rpm wouldn't know they were installed? Can you expand on your concerns?
It shouldn't be a problem to add new modules via CPAN that the core rpms don't know about. It would be a problem to upgrade perl to a new version this way.