This kind of redundancy has never really bothered me. I usually use Getopt::Long in conjunction with Pod::Usage and my 'skeleton' usually looks like: 
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

our ($user,$pass,$numb,$help);

GetOptions(
   'user|u=s'    => \$user,
   'pass|p=s'    => \$pass,
   'numb|n=i'    => \$numb,
   'help|h|?'    => \$help,
);

$numb ||= 42;
pod2usage(-verbose=>2) if $help;
pod2usage(-verbose=>1) unless $user and $pass;

__END__

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Considering that the variables used to hold user options are being shared across two (or more) packages, this doesn't seem overly redundant to me. But that's just me. ;)

UPDATE: hmmm, here is something evil: 

our ($user,$pass,$numb,$help);
my @tmpl = (
   'user|u=s',
   'pass|p=s',
   'numb|n=i',
   'help|h|?',
);

@tmpl = map {"'$_' => \\\$@{[(split('\|',$_))[0]]},"} @tmpl;
eval "GetOptions(@tmpl);";

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jeffa

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: GetOpt::Long usage style by jeffa
in thread GetOpt::Long usage style by demerphq

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