I'm trying to install RTFM 2.4.2 and it's trying to set up all sorts
of CPAN stuff. Why? I can tell you now that this isn't going to
work. I'm only using a normal user account, and frankly I detest
CPAN and the whole "screw up all the perl-based software on your
system easily and automatically!" that is CPAN. If RTFM needs some
perl modules, I will evaluate and install them one by one,
carefully. Ad-hoc installs and upgrades only break things that have
differing dependancies.
I don't mind having to upgrade a different piece of software to
resolve a version dependancy issue -- but i hate having it broken for
me, before I am even aware there will be a problem. Auto-package-
install is guaranteed failure unless you limit yourself to one perl-
based software package per machine.
In the next update, please make it possible for a person to not use
CPAN. "make testdeps" should do the job just fine, thank you. You
can have "make fixdeps" use CPAN -- I'll never run it, and that way
people who want to swath/trash/destroy can do so at their leisure ;-)
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
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