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From:
Gabor Szabo
Date:
September 30, 2008 15:04
Subject:
Re: Module::Install is a time bomb
Message ID:
d8a74af10809301504n4f9755c6w9d4751c981ac7c40@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Andreas J. Koenig
<andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:53:56 +0100, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> said:
>
>  >> Personally, I wonder how many authors use it because of the bundling
>  >> capability and how many use it for the simple declarative syntax for
>  >> Makefile.PL.
>
>  > I use it both for the declarative syntax and because it allows me to
>  > type
>
>  >     /path/to/perl Makefile.PL
>  >     make test
>
>  > in a dev directory with a fresh install of perl and get all the
>  > dependencies installed for me. Since I keep lots of versions of perl
>  > around and try to test my modules on all of them, this is highly
>  > convenient.
>
> <shamelessplug>
>
> You should try
>
>        /path/to/perl^Wcpan .         # <--- the last character is a dot
>
> instead. More than 22 strokes less to type and no shift key.
>
>  > Of course, if someone were to make all that work using M::B as the
>  > backend instead of EU::MM, I would be perfectly happy. Probably more so,
>  > as then extending M::I wouldn't require messing around with EU::MM's
>  > mess and the hacks required to make M::I work on top of that.
>
> cpan works with EUMM and MB and MI.
>
> </plug>

Excuse me?
and you kept this information to yourself all those years?

BTW Could I somehow install all the dependencies of a module but not
the module itself?

thanks and regards
  Gabor

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