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vendorlib(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation vendorlib(3pm)

NAME

vendorlib - Use Only Core and Vendor Libraries in @INC

SYNOPSIS

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use vendorlib;
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use SomeModule; # will only search in core and vendor paths
    ...

DESCRIPTION

In a system distribution such as Debian, it may be advisable for Perl programs to ignore the user's CPAN-installed modules and only use the distribution-provided modules to avoid possible breakage with newer and unpackaged versions of modules.
To that end, this pragma will replace your @INC with only the core and vendor @INC paths, ignoring site_perl and $ENV{PERL5LIB} entirely.
It is recommended that you put "use vendorlib;" as the first statement in your program, before even "use strict;" and "use warnings;".

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-vendorlib at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=vendorlib>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. 
    perldoc vendorlib
You can also look for information at:
•
RT: CPAN's request tracker
 
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=vendorlib>
•
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
 
<http://annocpan.org/dist/vendorlib>
•
CPAN Ratings
 
<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/vendorlib>
•
Search CPAN
 
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/vendorlib/>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

mxey and jawnsy on oftc #debian-perl helped to hash out the design for this.
ribasushi reviewed the initial version and pointed out that @INC order matters.

AUTHOR

Rafael Kitover, "<rkitover at cpan.org>"

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011 Rafael Kitover.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
2011-01-17 perl v5.10.1