You've both pointed me in the right direction... If I'm looking at SOAP::Lite it doesn't appear any easy way of viewing dependencies because there's no META.yml within its package after I extract it out.(other than attempting to build it and letting the make output complain about what it is missing?)
I did take a peek at the modules Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip (I brought them up through search.cpan.org). They both list META.yml as "Special" files. So this would seem the answer to the problem, but mileage varies depending upon the module - whether or not the author's generates a META.yml file? Any more info/insights/corrections are welcome. Thanks! | [reply] |