The gods have smiled on me recently, and through some bizarre twist of luck, I'm getting one of the new G4 laptops. So all of a sudden I have 30GB more of actual hard disk space with which to rearrange my workstation's partition map. So, I figured I would start by backing everything up on the workstation, and get it ready for the transition to 100% server. Now, as I am going through stuff, I see that I appear to have not 1, not 2, but 3 complete perl installs. Now, I'm aware that CPAN.pm can do some sort of snapshot operation whereby it can take a picture of everything you have installed. Can I use this feature to re-install perl so that it's exactly as I left it? Also, How can I go about removing perl without hurting anything? I cant quite just rm -fr each of those directories, right? I get the feeling apache will not like it very much if i do. I keep all my code on a separate partition, so Im not too worried about losing code. I just want to make sure everything is sterile so I can keep track of what I need to back up and what I dont need to back up.

brother dep.

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