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. -- Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com