I prefer pluggable logging objects personally.

Here's an untested example of what I mean:

package Foo;
use strict;
use warnings;

sub new {
  my $class = shift;
  $self = bless {@_}, $class;
  $self->init_logging();
}

sub init_logging {
  my $self = shift;
  return if exists $self->{LOGGER};
  eval {
    require SomeLogger;
    $self->{LOGGER} = SomeLogger->new();
  };
}

sub debug {
  my $self = shift;
  return unless exists $self->{LOGGER};
  $self->{LOGGER}->debug(@_);
}
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With this type of setup the user can run the code without any problems if the logging class is not available, and if they wish to use a different type of logger they can do something like this:

my $logger = SomeOtherLogger->new(log_level => 'debug');
my $foo = Foo->new(LOGGER => $logger);
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As long as SomeOtherLogger uses the same interface you're ok. To make it more robust you can do something like this:

use Scalar::Util qw( blessed );
sub debug {
  my $self = shift;
  return unless exists $self->{LOGGER};
  return unless blessed $self->{LOGGER};
  return unless $self->{LOGGER}->can('debug');
  $self->{LOGGER}->debug(@_);
}
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Update - switched to require within the eval, per chromatic's suggestion

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