But I can't find any tooling that creates or maintains this file as one installs and uninstalls module distributions. Does anything use this, or is it a vestigial feature from the late 90s?
How... had I never realized that "perldoc -f <builtin-function>” is a thing? Game changer!
I realized this as I'm poking around to find out if there is /any/ way (documented or not) to substitute the current program/topic in the =pod section, so I can copy a script template around and require fewer changes to get up and running.
If anyone has an answer to that (which may be of the form "Nope, no dice”), I would appreciate it.