On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:47:39 +0200 Jos Chrispijn <jos at webrz.net> wrote: > Can someone tell me why I have to recompile all related programs when > I upgrade to a newer version of Perl? For the most part you don't, you can just run perl-after-upgrade. If you are referring to the switch from lang/perl5.8 to lang/perl5.10, then that's exceptional and optional.