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  84                   <p>One can maintain a list of CPAN Perl modules that they wanted installed by using <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/lib/CPAN.pm#Bundles">Bundles</a>. Then you can use <a href="http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/cpan/">cpan(1)</a> to install them and use <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=398722">PREFIX</a> to install them to an alternate location, like a vob, so that they can be more easily shared.</p>
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  86 <p>Here's an example of a bundle:</p>
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  89 package Bundle::MyBundle;
  90 use strict;
  91 use vars qw($VERSION);
  92 $VERSION = '1.000'; # use 3 digits to minimize confusion with the
  93                     # other CPAN.pm
  94
  95 1;
  96
  97 __END__
  98
  99 =head1 NAME
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 101 Bundle::MyBundle - Bundle of CPAN modules that I  use
 102
 103 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 104
 105  perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::MyBundle'
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