I was looking through my CPAN directory and noticed that I
have older versions for various CPAN functions going back
to 1999.
Is there any good reason why I would need to keep versions older than about a year or two around? I can't, for example, see why I would want to keep around versions 1.17-2.19 (35 versions) of Config-General (in Perl_Core_Modules/Config).
Should there be some auto maintenance that isn't being performed or is there some auto-maintenance that I should be doing to delete these old versions? I find it hard to believe I've been downloading CPAN modules on this system since 1999, but that is the year I got this system. But I don't remember using CPAN that far back (maybe I was... I am getting forgetful these days...hmmmmm....)
I'm currently using the shared CPAN database for 2 perl installations, a SuSELinux back at 5.8.3, and a cygwin version at 5.8.6.
Thanks...no wonder computer cruft just keeps growing and growing....I sure don't remember that many version downloads.
Sigh... thanks, Linda
