This one is most likely not a problem. You can see below that it is distributed with the perl rpm on my FC3 system. > Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/.packlist $ locate .packlist /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/.packlist $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/[blah]/.packlist perl-5.8.5-9