As Ari Kahn previously wrote,

>I read in http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html that there
>might be "
>difficulties when installing a software package that was designed for a
>case-sensitive system. For example, libwww-perl by default installs an HTTP
>script called HEAD, which is used to make an HTTP HEAD request. If this is
>installed to /usr/bin, it can overwrite the BSD built-in /usr/bin/head
>command, used for reading the beginnings of files. To prevent this kind of
>collision when using HFS+, it's necessary to configure CPAN.pm to install
>modules to a private directory.

So how *does* one configure CPAN.pm to install modules to a private
directory?

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