[Pdx-pm] DON'T SUDO CPAN!

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Michael R. Wolf
# on Wednesday 14 November 2007 07:38:

> ... "Cannot create /root/.cpan". ...
>The problem magically went away when I installed a new Bundle::CPAN.

I think that has to do with a global CPAN/MyConfig.pm and perhaps 
depends on your @INC order.

IIRC, you have to upgrade to a fairly recent CPAN.pm anyway to get the 
inner sudo support.  Previously, make_install_make_command and 
mbuild_install_build_command were not configurable.

Also see:

  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2007/11/msg9565.html

--Eric
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