Offtopic: I hate perl installs!

[Joe Smith <jes martnet com>]

Sorry, just ranting.

I tried to build the beta - it fails immediately, needing ExtUtils::Depends.

I try running CPAN shell, which goes off re-installing itself and 
updating the several DOZENs of modules it depends on.  Since CPAN.pm 
requires root perms, lord only knows what the hell it's doing to my 
system.  I finally panic and kill it as it's running tests on 
Archive::tar -- yeesh!

Am I the only one that finds installing perl 'stuff' a complete PITA? 
From navigating CPAN, to installing, to maintaining; and upgrading perl 
simply repeats the nightmare all over again, as locally installed stuff 
(always?) remains tied to the old version.  <primal_scream>

Ok, back to real work, but I still can't try Gtk2-Perl.

Can Gtk2-Perl include ExtUtils::Depends, or is an installed 
Gtk-Perl-0.7008 a well-known requirement?

<Joe