I never had the chance to do this but about the name I suppose everything is good as long the path tell you and others something, like: /usr/local/lib/perl5/custom_modules (maybe better path names will come out from other monks who work on lucky OSs)

You can be interested in how-to-change-inc-to-find-perl-modules-in-non-standard-locations and in perlfaq about PERL5LIB

> They are still under somewhat active development..

A separate path for them is mandatory in my opinion: you can have two paths dev and prod never touching the latter until you are sure all your tests (do you have tests, dont you?) passes.

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