... in the past, in my homebrew attempts at reinstall lists, the problem was always, install order......i could get the list in alphabetical order from a dir listing.... but handling the order of install automatically, was the tricky part..... the dependency order ..... i guess the Cpan module is supposed to take care of that?..... the specific problem i remember is the install hanging on one module as the cpan server or something tried to find a host?..... thats my recollection..... and why i've been doing Perl rebuilds manually for awhile... it's good practice anyways.. :-)

..... are automatic installs from Cpan now as reliable as say, Ubuntu's software updates?