So, I'm a bit confused as to why cpan went to install mod_perl? I would have thought it would have picked up on what was already installed, even if that includes things installed without CPAN? I'm running SuSE linux, the version details are :

mod_perl-2 is not the same as mod_perl-1

the weird part here is that mod_perl was identified as a dependency of SOAP::Lite because its not