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And yet another solution is to make use of the myriad paths that Perl scans for modules in. </p

Notice that Perl scans /etc/perl by default. Most distributions of Linux don't put anything there, so why not just softlink the directory structure your modules live under into /etc/perl?

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Re^2: How to change @INC permanently?
by Qiang (Friar) on Aug 24, 2005 at 14:47 UTC
    Notice that Perl scans /etc/perl by default.

    doesn't seem to be the case on my machines. if it were, that might be a nice trick to use.

    on debian perl 5.8.7 

    $ perl -e 'print join "\n",@INC'
/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.8
/usr/share/perl/5.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4

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    on RH perl 5.8.0 
    $ perl  -e 'print join "\n",@INC'
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0

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    on solaris perl 5.00503 
    > perl -e 'print join "\n",@INC'
/usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
/usr/perl5/5.00503
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005

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