Thanks, ex::newest looks like what would be closest. I suppose there's a minor performance hit for looking more through @INC.

I can't just alter @INC because now my local perl library has modules that are both newer and older than the installed ones.

I guess I just have this desire to have a nice clean local perl library of just the modules I need -- and once the site-wide library contains a newer version of some module I'd like to purge my local library of the older version.

Thanks again for the pointer to ex::newest.