yeah, but I tought that's what the OP asked for !?!

> > > Basically i have a series of classes and subclasses, each level adding a bit more functionality to its parent and in each class i have behaviour which can be modified by configuration options which are specific to that class

see? Class not Object.

> That's a lot of boiler work (for me ;) ).

Well my code was shorter than yours. ;)

(...and I'm sure this could be even shortened further with some sugar)

> and for a package variable %{$self->SUPER::cfg};

I doubt it, according to the docs cfg here - i.e. the part after SUPER:: - must be a sub in the super class.