The great thing is I don't know the answer and I don't have to care. It just works. I have 5.10 on this thing. I left the default install in place and just made /usr/bin/perl point to my new perl. The perl installation walks you through that question/setting. 

moo@cow[50]~>sl /usr/bin/perl
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  25 Mar 23 10:53 /usr/bin/perl@ -> /usr/loc
+al/bin/perl5.10.0

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I can check various critters with perldoc -l but I've never once had to set up anything special for paths except the symlink for the new perl. That's the joy of root. If you don't do it as root, there are some great posts here about local CPAN installs. Here are a couple of examples of locations on this box but I had no idea where they'd be before checking-

moo@cow[51]~>pd -l Storable
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/darwin-2level/Storable.pm
moo@cow[52]~>pd -l Catalyst
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Catalyst.pm

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In reply to Re^3: Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X? by Your Mother
in thread Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X? by Anonymous Monk

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