Re: perl version depends

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Martin Schulze (joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE):
> Before this screwup I didn't realize that most but not all modules are
> placed in /usr/lib/perl5/$version/$arch-linux/$dir while plain 
> /usr/lib/per5 would be sufficient, too.  We should have made it
> policy that modules have to omit the versioned directory where it is
> possible.

Except that this isn't what's happening; the new perl is ignoring
/usr/lib/perl5. (E.g., I couldn't install netstd the other day because
it couldn't find DebianNet.pm--which is in /usr/lib/perl5--until I put a
symlink in /usr/lib/perl5/5.005. Can someone give a concise explanation
of the rationale behind that?

Mike Stone