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in thread What is cpan (the installer) doing prepending all these directories to the PERL5LIB path?

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

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Re^3: What is cpan (the installer) doing prepending all these directories to the PERL5LIB path?
by ysth (Canon) on Nov 12, 2025 at 20:57 UTC
    Weird. Nuke the old directories? I almost always use cpanm.