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Were these built in the same cpan command? Or are you saying it's adding in old builds?
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Re^2: What is cpan (the installer) doing prepending all these directories to the PERL5LIB path?
by Intrepid (Curate) on Nov 12, 2025 at 17:39 UTC

    Hi Yitzchak, good to hear from you. Yes, the message spans runs of cpan, seeming to accumulate. Thanks for asking for clarification, I should have specified how this is happening.

        — Soren

    Nov 12, 2025 at 17:28 UTC

      Weird. Nuke the old directories? I almost always use cpanm.