Just to clarify, re-reading this it looks a little confused. The rubbish I maintain is not stuff on CPAN but legacy code inherited from another non-CPAN projec

Just to clarify, re-reading this it looks a little confused. The rubbish I maintain is not stuff on CPAN but legacy code inherited from another non-CPAN project. The legacy modules are sometimes annoying in some ways but they are serviceable. Some of the non-CPAN code I have (the rubbish) is sufficiently unmaintainable that the only way of dealing with it is to refactor with a chain saw and avoid touching it otherwise.