Seeing as you're on Sabayon, a derivitive of Gentoo (which is on four of my four linux boxes here), all you actually needed to do is change your USE flag, and re-"emerge perl". (I had to do this to switch out threads to get apache and perl playing nice when I first moved to Gentoo back in 2005.) You may still be able to do that even now, since most of the package system is in python, though I'm not sure.

If that doesn't work, perhaps someone can give you a binary package of their perl5.8.8 (are you running x86, x86_64, or other?) which you may be able to install that will work well enough for you to re-emerge it with the USE flags you really want. If you need that, perhaps one of my Gentoo boxes would work for that, and I can send you that somehow (that'd be co-ordinated over /msg's, not nodes).

In reply to Re^3: Uninstalling / installing perl by Tanktalus
in thread Uninstalling / installing perl by sirsir

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