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vendorlib(3pm)

Use Only Core and Vendor Libraries in @INC

NAME

vendorlib - Use Only Core and Vendor Libraries in @INC

SYNOPSIS

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use vendorlib;
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use SomeModule; # will only search in core and vendor paths
    ...

DESCRIPTION

In a system distribution such as Debian, it may be advisable for Perl programs to ignore the user's CPAN-installed modules and only use the distribution-provided modules to avoid possible breakage with newer and unpackaged versions of modules.

To that end, this pragma will replace your @INC with only the core and vendor @INC paths, ignoring site_perl and $ENV{PERL5LIB} entirely.

It is recommended that you put "use vendorlib;" as the first statement in your program, before even "use strict;" and "use warnings;".

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to mxey, jawnsy and ribasushi for help with the design.

AUTHOR

Rafael Kitover <[email protected]>

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