# from David Golden
# on Tuesday 27 May 2008:
>And I would suggest that anyone you think should need to know nothing
>about the CPAN ecosystem shouldn't be installing modules via CPAN or
>CPANPLUS anyway, but should be using a packaged perl that can provide
>more robust dependency resolution via ppm, rpm, deb or whatever
>anyway.
Not to mention something which might possibly be more stable
than "whatever tarball happened to get loose today." And note that any
attempt to do this outside of vendor package management (e.g. "the
stable cpan") will require a toolchain upgrade.
So, yes. Let's please hope that "I shouldn't need to know anything"
users will either upgrade their tools or write a check to someone who
knows how to upgrade their tools.
Yes, the tools should upgrade themselves. No, they don't. Yes, we're
stuck and will continue talking in circles until history changes.
Yes, there's an easy fix to force a toolchain upgrade and solve the
supposed "bootstrapping" problem. No, nobody seems to think that
gutting the 02packages.details.txt.gz file is a good idea.
--Eric
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power
to make you commit injustices.
--Voltaire
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