Rather than introduce this kind of DWIMery, I'd like to see the existing cpan:// preserved as a search link and new types added:

• cpandist://Distribution-Foo -> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Distribution-Foo and
• cpandoc://Module::Foo -> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Module::Foo

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