Ah. So it is possible to configure the CPAN shell to automagically update it. But shouldn't this just be 'normal behaviour'? When I have a package installed and I want to reinstall or update the package, doesn't it seem logical to replace updated files? To me it sounds more logical than keeping old files and adding new ones. In that case you have a mixed environment of old and new files, and something tells me that is not what most people would want.