[Pdx-pm] CPAN.pm and prerequisite_policy

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Wed Aug 4 16:01:19 CDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:50:37AM -0700, Chris Dawson wrote:
> use CPAN;
> $CPAN::Config->{ 'prerequisites_policy' } = 'follow';
> install( "XML::LibXML" );
> 
> I want to temporarily ask CPAN to follow all dependencies. 

May not be what you're looking for, but from interactive CPAN

  cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy follow

Good for that session only, unless you follow up with a commit

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