DanEllison has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All our environments expected modules to be installed in the /usr/lib/perl5 or /usr/lib64/perl5. Suddenly our new RedHat systems are putting modules into /usr/share/perl5. Is this a new expected standard? Previously, I only expected the man pages to be installed there.

We have private installations that we reference by setting the PERL5LIB. So suddenly modules are being installed to the share directory of are target location requiring us to update PERL5LIB for all our environments. Is that desired?

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Re: Installing to /usr/share ( Config )
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2015 at 15:22 UTC

    Is this a new expected standard? Is that desired?

    There is no standard :) There are defaults, and they can be changed ... were they changed? Maybe, some years ago , history not that interesting :)

    Everybody is free to configure an install of perl however their like

    So your environments should use Config and they won't be surprised

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