On 5/6/07, A. Pagaltzis <[email protected]> wrote:
* demerphq <[email protected]> [2007-05-06 11:15]:
> CPAN as bundled with ActiveStates installs is preconfigured
> these days afair. Actually i find it a little annoying as it
> assumes i dont have things I do have. Avoiding this problem
Why is that a problem? You can still configure CPAN.pm manually,
can you not?
Yes of course, but it reflects on the original point as id prefer on
first use to be asked to go through configuration than to have the
precanned settings.
> is the reason why we have config in CPAN, and why IMO the
> original hate in this thread was not really all that hateful.
But that Windows is also Windows.
Right, which is part of my point. CPAN/Perl runs on so many
configurations and platforms that if *it* came with a precanned config
it would be wrong an awful lot of the time. The OP made it sound like
the only OS out there was *NIX.
Most Unixen have marginally
more intelligent software installation paradigms, so in theory
it should be possible for the Perl package to update the CPAN.pm
config when you install `wget`, say. The new event/trigger stuff
in APT should be able to solve this nicely, f.ex.
Im surprised someone hasnt come up with a script to autoconfigure CPAN
intelligently under these conditions.
Yves
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