On 2020/10/25 13:00, Bill Cole wrote:
A common source of such problems is widespread adoption of the
local::lib module which creates a per-user Perl library tree for each
user of CPAN, even root. If that's not disabled, it can result in
independent module trees with different versions of the same modules,
one of which is used by the system (e.g. by cron) and the others by
individual users in interactive sessions.
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Thanks for the heads up. I see evidence of it having been a
probably cause
of problems in the past, but as part of debugging this problem, I had
reinstall
CPAN and reran its config script. It asked me about the local-storage
and I
disabled it. However, the local-lib (~/.local/Share) had been in use before
that -- I have a feeling that some distro package migrated prefs from
the original
to the local (grrr..).
That said, it was due to something similar that I need to figure out
a solution for. I've fixed it for now, but it's a timebomb waiting to happen
again. -- separating it out since it seems "surprising" -- i.e. not what
one might expect... (split installation)....
