Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:17:18AM -0500, David Golden wrote:
>> On Nov 20, 2007 8:40 PM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I also note that every other installer in the universe, the very first
>> thing
>>> it does, is it updates the installer. It is usually not an optional thing
>>> for
>>> just the sort of chicken/egg problems we worry about. That we leave it an
>>> option is an odd.
>> +1 to that!
>
> Are there any other installers that merrily expect to be run as non-root?
>
> [or more accurately, a user with less privileges than is needed to update
> the installer itself]
Not that I can think of. The fractured install space of Perl is fairly unique.
The "I couldn't/can't update" case can be detected. It's not like it's
"update or fail", just try to update and then continue on.
And when I say "installer" I mean just CPAN or CPANPLUS. It then has the
ability to do additional updates to the build toolchain.
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