I have a humble request - that the mod local::lib be installed by default at part of CPAN, and not as a separate install. ... It is a chicken/egg scenario, in order to install from fileshare, you have to have local::lib installed. ...

Well, CPAN isn't maintained by perlmonks ...

But there really is no need to inline local::lib -- simply read local::lib documentation

All local::lib does is arrange a few env vars supported by Perl/CPAN/ExtUtils::MakeMaker/Module::Build

There is no chicken and egg problem, you don't need local::lib installed to set a few env vars

Also, like Corion says, you don't need local::lib to install modules from a local file share

All you have to do is update your cpan configuration and set a few env vars

See CPAN/perlrun ( Re: How do I tell CPAN to use a local lib? () )