[ic] perl issue

[DB]

> Hi,
> 
> A while back I uninstalled all my perl rpm's and used the tarball 
> installation of perl 5.8, and the one thing that I forgot to do is tell 
> my up2date not to update perl. As expected when I ran up2date, it 
> installed all kinds of perl rpm's.  Everything seems well, but my 
> questions are:
> Why is my interchange still working?
> What will happen if I reboot?
> Should I uninstall all the perl rpm's again? or should I just leave the 
> rpms alone and hope for the best...
> 
> Thanks
> Rick

If you're using RH 8 or 9, the perl rpms are complied with threading 
enabled which likely will cause trouble. I'd stick with the nonthreaded 
perl installation.

DB