Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bill Ward"):
>
> Since anyone can upload code to CPAN, not all modules are of the same high
> quality as others. I feel it is very important to vet each and every module
> that I install. But with the auto-install behavior, modules that I want to
> install may have dependencies on other modules that I don't feel comfortable
> installing, and I want to have the opportunity to consider each one before I
> go ahead and install it. So I don't like auto-install. I want it to stop
> and complain that the other module is missing, so I can go over to the CPAN
> Web site, look up that module, see who wrote it, read its documentation,
> scan its code, and get a feel for whether I'm comfortable installing it
> before doing so.
o conf prerequisites_policy ask
Of course, if you trust a given module you probably ought to also trust
that the author has vetted its dependencies.
You can also click on the 'Dependencies' link on a distribution's
search.cpan.org page, which will take you to deps.cpantesters.org with a
list of all the dependencies of the module and what test results they've
had.
Ben
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that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal
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