Once upon a time, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > However, I don't know how rpm would handle two different RPMs providing > > the same 'perl(SomeModule)'. > > This latter point is the key one. It could potentially throw other perl > packages for a loop when they rely on the modules provided by perl, but > instead, find the newer modules. Modules won't care what rpm thinks; they'll work just fine as long as perl sees the updated modules (which it should just fine). Depending on the module, the RPM provides may already be versioned, so there may not even be an issue there. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.