Not that I'm suggesting that you should avoid perlbrew. It's widely used and generally recommended - from which I deduce that it's reliable and user-friendly. (I've never even looked at it, so I don't know.)

Probably its main advantage is that it makes switching between Perl installations easy; it takes over modifying PATH etc. so that you can switch between the system Perl and the Perlbrew installed Perls either for the current session or for all future sessions easily. It also can make use of Devel::PatchPerl (especially useful for installing older Perls), and has a command that installs cpanm. But as you said, doing a manual install into one's home directory is fine too of course.

In reply to Re^5: @INC error by haukex
in thread @INC error by worstead

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