cpan (amusing)

jon at netsw.co.uk jon at netsw.co.uk
Wed May 31 18:21:38 CDT 2000


Got mildly annoyed with CPAN.pm last night. I normally get it to ask me
before fetching dependent modules, so I was a bit miffed when it said

	Running make for G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.0.tar.gz

So in fit of pique I typed

	cpan> install perl     

and got back

	Warning: Cannot install perl, don't know what it is.

(which is to be expected I suppose). I suppose that cpan upgrading my perl
to 5.6.0 could be called an "agressive" upgrade policy. Should it do this?




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