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 . 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 * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * Search CPAN 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, "" 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.