Overriding core Perl modules

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:43 AM -0400 Chip Turner 
<cturner at pattern.net> wrote:

> Yep, this option works too, except that upgrading to a new Perl would
> still use the old module.  Probably okay.  (or is rawhide set so that
> site_perl comes before vendor_perl and even the local perl's dirs,
> now?  I think I fixed that, not sure)

That would be nice. Currently (FC2 for me) one must issue a "use lib" in 
code that needs to override builtins with site libs.

> But hey, I could change cpanflute2 to at least offer a
> --local-manpages option un the meantime, til perl is fixed, that would
> move whatever was in /usr/man to /usr/local/man; would that suffice?

That would be a good interim workaround until Perl and FHS figure out the 
Right Thing.