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> .pod is 'plain ordinary documentation' or some such. perllocal.pod is
> generated when you install ports from CPAN rather than through the
ports
> system -- it's officially a record of what add-on perl modules you've
> installed -- superfluous when you're using the ports  as it already
has
> mechanisms to track that sort of thing.  It doesn't belong to any=20
> particular module and it's generally safe to delete.
=20
You could also do perldoc perllocal to see what module(s) was/were
installed by CPAN