Maybe instead of installing perl modules to specific version directories
they could be installed to generic lib/perl5 or lib/perl5/site_perl.

(I am not sure what "site_perl" means.)

For example, on a Debian system, the @INC defaults to:

/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1
/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1
/usr/share/perl/5.6.1
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
.  <-- default directory

By default, these directories really exist:

/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1
/usr/share/perl/5.6.1

and depending on what is installed:

/usr/lib/perl5

For example, a libdbd-mysql-perl package uses:
 /usr/lib/perl5/Mysql/Statement.pm
 /usr/lib/perl5/DBD/mysql.pm

And libmime-base64-perl (p5-MIME-Base64) package has:

 /usr/lib/perl5/MIME/Base64.pm
 /usr/lib/perl5/MIME/QuotedPrint.pm
 /usr/lib/perl5/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.so
 /usr/lib/perl5/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.bs

instead of:

 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/MIME/Base64.pm
 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/MIME/QuotedPrint.pm
 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.bs
 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.so

And one more example: libdigest-md5-perl (p5-Digest-MD5) package
provides:

  /usr/lib/perl5/Digest/MD5.pm
  /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
  /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.bs

instead of

  /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/Digest/MD5.pm
  /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.bs
  /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so

Any thoughts on this?



 Jeremy C. Reed

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