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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20080713/6c71f267/attachment-0005.sig>