You're saying that .pod files can't be installed out of context, but still come with the distribution?

Unless I misunderstand you, that's a feature not a bug.

Regarding taking over the namespace, having equally named .pod and .pm should be safe in this respect.

update

to better understand the namespace issue

Two dists

could clash?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^2: Any reason to have documentation-only *.pm file instead of *.pod for CPAN distro? by LanX
in thread Any reason to have documentation-only *.pm file instead of *.pod for CPAN distro? by Anonymous Monk

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