perl and multilib considerations?

[Florian La Roche]

> Although please correct me if I am wrong.  It would be nice if this 
> "problem" would go away one day, but it is a really non-trivial problem.

I thought Chip tried the last time to enable backwards compatibility,
but it was an unknown how much would still break or needs rebuilding.

Is it possible to add the perl version number automatically once
you have files in /usr/lib/perl/5.8.x/?

greetings,

Florian La Roche