CPAN::P...Mapping(3)

💖 CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps::Mapping 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the little corner of the Perl docs that ships as part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, aka the place where CPAN weirdos (affectionate) leave their lore. This one is CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps::Mapping(3) and she's a supporting character, not a main character — but a very important supporting character, fr fr. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps::Mapping — a static mapping of CPAN modules to system packages. that's it, that's the whole vibe. no cap. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

    # Not supposed to be used directly

literally that's the entire synopsis and honestly? iconic. she said "don't touch me, i'm not for you like that". 🙈

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

🍓 mapping

so there's this function called mapping, and what it does is hand you back a mapping data structure — and the whole shape of that thing is described over in "MAPPING" in CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps. go read that if you want the full tea. 👑

and because typos are the villain of every codebase, a whole bunch of constants are defined as shortcuts — think os_freebsd or like_debian — and you're allowed to use those in the mapping data structure too. so cute, so convenient, so typo-proof. 🫶

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Slaven Rezic — the icon who wrote this. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• CPAN::Plugin::Sysdeps. 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil doc lives in perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-06-29 — so when you cite her, cite her correctly. periodt. 💅✨🎀