in reply to Being forced to 5.10??

Judging from comments here on perlmonks and my own experience there are no problems with using more than one version of perl concurrently. You could install perl10 in /usr/local, change the name of the executable to perl5.10, add /usr/local/bin to (the end of) your PATH environment variable and /usr/local/lib/perl5 to your PERL5LIB env variable. Any script you want to use with perl5.10 now only needs a short edit of its shebang line and you're done