I totally agree. I planed to port my little web appication to Perl, because using PHP is just ugly. But, CPAN is also ugly. I don't want to install hundrets of modules just to get some little things to work. Also I hate installing modules without APT. I have a small webserver, even I don't want to use CPAN. I'm still stuck with PHP. Perl is better for programming than PHP is, but CPAN let me stay away.