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Unfortunately, I see a problem with what you have here. Consider this scenario.

Let's say you're running macOS 10.x which provides Perl 5.x; you follow the steps you show and install a variety of CPAN modules; these are now all available for Perl 5.x code to load. At some later point, you upgrade to macOS 10.y which uses Perl 5.y; Perl 5.x is completely removed along with all modules installed using that version of Perl.

I've been using macOS (formerly Mac OS X) for about eight or nine years; the scenario I've just described seems to have been standard Apple practice for all of that time. I'm away from home (where my Mac is) at the moment so I can't test any this: please correct me if you think some (or even all) of this is wrong.

I continue to recommend leaving the System Perl (/usr/bin/perl) alone on Mac systems and instead use perlbrew and install modules using your preferred cpan utility.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Install Perl module from CPAN (Apple Mac Service) by kcott
in thread Install Perl module from CPAN (Apple Mac Service) by usemodperl

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