> Seth, > > I understand your position but I have a custom install of perl (a > couple of perl modules are hard to get as rpms) and it is maddening to > regularly have rpm installs fail because of perl dependencies . . > use perl-specfile or cpanflute and make them into rpms that do the right thing. it's a lot less work and you don't have to refer to two databases (rpm and cpan) to know what you have installed. -sv