June 14, 2012

Cpanel changing from compile-on-demand to delivery of pre-compiled binary packages, using the RPM format. A primary driver behind this was use of perl. To deliver perl via pre-built RPM packages required a number of changes to the product.

cPanel & WHM will no longer install perl from source. Rather pre-built RPMs will deliver perl and its dependencies.

Reference- http://www.cpanel.net/2012/06/providing-the-perl-stack-as-rpms.html