On 2007-10-19 21:14:45 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> no. The file in question is from the p5-pathtools port, it supplies a newer 
> (but still compatible) version of a library that is included with the 
> normal perl distribution. Due to some peculiarities with how perl searches 
> for libraries, it is necessary to overwrite the provided version with the 
> new version for most software to be able to load it.

This is incorrect. The user can control the way modules are searched for.

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