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in reply to mod_perl and imports

Why don't you just try it?

#file One.pm package One; BEGIN { print "Begin One\n" } sub import { print "Import One\n" } 1
#file Two.pm package Two; use One; 1
use One; use Two;
The import method won't be called if you require instead of use your modules.