I've just recently realized that the slick and useful Mandrake configuration utilities are written in Perl. I'm trying to get my laptop to detect whether I'm using the touchpad or MS mouse and hacking Mandrake's mousedrake is making it easy.

The multi mode interface (cmdline,curses and Gtk) looks handy, is Mandrake's work CPAN absorbable?

Just look at all these juicy modules, imagine the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot potential.

[15:11 root root]# ls /usr/lib/libDrakX/
Newt/                  help.pm              partition_table_bsd.pm
Xconfig.pm             http.pm              partition_table_dos.pm
Xconfigurator.pm       icons/               partition_table_empty.pm
Xconfigurator_consts.pminteractive.pm       partition_table_mac.pm
any.pm                 interactive_gtk.pm   partition_table_raw.pm
auto/                  interactive_newt.pm  partition_table_sun.pm
bootloader.pm          interactive_stdio.pm pci_probing/
c/                     keyboard.pm          po/
c.pm                   lang.pm              printer.pm
class_discard.pm       log.pm               printerdrake.pm
commands.pm            loopback.pm          raid.pm
common.pm              modparm.pm           resize_fat/
crypto.pm              modules.pm           run_program.pm
ddcprobe/              mouse.pm             sbus_probing/
detect_devices.pm      my_gtk.pm            serial_probe/
devices.pm             netconnect.pm        services.pm
diskdrake.pm           netconnect_consts.pm share/
fs.pm                  network.pm           swap.pm
fsedit.pm              partition_table.pm   timezone.pm

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