Perl does not allow machine to be updated

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 15:44 -0700, Alan wrote:
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> >>
> >> perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.95.1-3.fc9.noarch from installed has depsolving
> >> problems
> >>
> >>   --> Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by
> >> package perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.95.1-3.fc9.noarch (installed)
> >>
> >> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by
> >> package perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.95.1-3.fc9.noarch (installed)
> >>
> >> Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by package
> >> perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.95.1-3.fc9.noarch (installed)
> >>
> >> how do I fix this, without yum remove perl*
> >> yum install perl*
> >
> > Try after the next push; it worked for me when vim got broken.
> 
> It really depends on how many modules you have installed.  I had pretty
> much everything installed and I had to delete about 5-10 modules to get
> the update to work.

Does yum --skip-broken allow it to work?

-sv