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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:47:39 +0200
Jos Chrispijn <jos@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.