On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 09:35 PM, John Tobey wrote:

> Probably normal.  I don't know, I don't use CPAN.pm.  Every time I've
> started to use it, it annoyed me and I ended up rm -rf'ing ~/.cpan.
>
> Is anyone besides me allergic to the CPAN module???

It's a love/hate relationship. On the one hand, it *is* quite useful, 
when it works.

On the other hand, the dependency checking is often over-zealous. On 
many occasions, I've had to stop it from downloading and/or compiling an 
updated Perl.

sherm--

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