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Re: upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4


Rob wrote:

> 1. Why is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl not listed on 5.8.8 ?

Because having an unversioned directory in @INC was a mistake that was
corrected.

> 2. why are there "duplicate" entries for:
>    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8

vendor_perl contains modules that ship with perl from the packager. 
site_perl contains modules that were locally installed from CPAN.

> 3. Even though /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin and
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 are listed in @INC,
> the /lib/perl5/site_perl directory does not get created when the package is
> installed and is missing.

Then it sounds like you've not installed anything from CPAN.  It should
be created and populated the first time you do that.

Brian

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