perl-5.8.6nb3 says it will use /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 (notice
5.8 and 5.6)

/usr/pkg/bin/perl --version says I have v5.8.6.

rainier:/usr/pkgsrc$ ls -l /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/
total 14
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel   512 May  8  2002 5.6.0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Mar 23 07:39 5.6.1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 Oct 25  2000 Bundle
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Apr  9  2004 XML
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 Feb 16  2001 auto
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  2048 Feb 16  2001 i386-netbsd

Check this out below:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:51:54 -0800
From: root@rainier.reedmedia.net
To: root
Subject: Package perl-5.8.6nb3 installed on rainier.reedmedia.net

The perl-5.8.6nb3 package was installed on rainier.reedmedia.net at Wed Mar 23 07:51:53 PST 2005

Please note the following:

===========================================================================
$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1 2004/01/08 19:18:00 jlam Exp $

perl-5.8.6nb3 will use the following directory as the default
location of the site-specific Perl modules:

	/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1

===========================================================================


-- Jeremy C. Reed