[tpm] Help... I've buggered 'cpan install' and I cant get up!

[Abram Hindle]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Martin at Cleaver.org wrote:

> While CPAN was one of the earlier tools, the many other tools (yum, apt-get)
> take "install X" to be something sensible.

Yet other cpan-like tools like chicken-setup which downloads EGGs for chicken
scheme (cute I know) takes no install argument.

Assumptions on the commandline are pretty dangerous :(

abram