diff --git a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
index 7f3998c637..0442e40d78 100644
--- a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
+++ b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
   <!ENTITY Error-download-http "&perl_authors;/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/Error-&Error-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY Error-md5sum "0dcd94640f617df02b6d6c1e4e92018c">
 
-  <!ENTITY File-BaseDir-download-http "&perl_authors;/id/K/KI/KIMRYAN/File-BaseDir-&File-BaseDir-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY File-BaseDir-md5sum "667a7faa144c0c9a22b4421ed395fe89">
+<!-- <!ENTITY File-BaseDir-download-http "&perl_authors;/id/K/KI/KIMRYAN/File-BaseDir-&File-BaseDir-version;.tar.gz">
+  <!ENTITY File-BaseDir-md5sum "667a7faa144c0c9a22b4421ed395fe89"> -->
 
   <!ENTITY File-Slurper-download-http "&perl_authors;/id/L/LE/LEONT/File-Slurper-&File-Slurper-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY File-Slurper-md5sum "5742c63096392dfee50b8db314bcca18">
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ MD5 sum: &Error-md5sum;</literallayout>
     </itemizedlist>
 
    <!-- File::BaseDir -->
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="perl-file-basedir"
+<!--<bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="perl-file-basedir"
     xreflabel="File::BaseDir-&File-BaseDir-version;">
     File::BaseDir-&File-BaseDir-version;</bridgehead>
 
@@ -1106,10 +1106,10 @@ MD5 sum: &Error-md5sum;</literallayout>
     Its dependencies use the standard <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>.
     One set of tests (03_userdirs.t) may fail if
     <xref linkend="xdg-user-dirs"/> is installed and
-    <envar>XDG_CONFIG_HOME</envar> is set.</para>
+    <envar>XDG_CONFIG_HOME</envar> is set.</para>-->
 
     <!-- File-BaseDir -->
-    &lfs83_checked;
+<!--&lfs83_checked;
 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ MD5 sum: &File-BaseDir-md5sum;</literallayout>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
       </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
+    </itemizedlist>-->
 
     <!-- File::Slurper -->
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="perl-file-slurper"
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 1770538937..92833ac999 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!ENTITY Encode-JIS2K-version         "0.03">
 <!ENTITY Encode-HanExtra-version      "0.23">
 <!ENTITY Error-version                "0.17026">
-<!ENTITY File-BaseDir-version         "0.08">
+<!--<!ENTITY File-BaseDir-version         "0.08">-->
 <!ENTITY File-Slurper-version         "0.012">
 <!ENTITY File-Which-version           "1.22">
 <!ENTITY HTML-Parser-version          "3.72">