My $client has a lot of locally defined modules that pull in other locally defined modules. Every module contains a literal: 
use lib "/our/local/lib";

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so that the following "use" calls will work. Well, that's a problem, because even though I can get a CVS view of the tree in /our/local to make changes, I can't "prefer" my local view. Until I did this...
use lib "/our/local/lib";
BEGIN {
  no strict;                    # off with the handcuffs, I say
  no warnings;
  my $old_lib_import = lib->can("import") or die;
  *lib::import = sub {
    my $self = shift;
    my @args = grep $_ ne "/our/local/lib", @_;
    if (@args) {                # ok, they want something else
      $self->$old_lib_import(@args);
    }
  };
}
use lib "/home/merlyn/project/lib"; # now put mine ahead of /our/local
+/lib

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In reply to add defang wrapper to "use lib" by merlyn

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