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On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:11 AM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:04:02 +0300, "Gabor Szabo"
>>>>>> <szabgab@gmail.com> said:
>
>> BTW Could I somehow install all the dependencies of a module but not
>> the module itself?
>
> You mean like you File::HomeDir requires newest MakeMaker and maybe
> more but you don't know exactly and just want to look around the
> uninstalled dependencies?
>
> That would be a combination of C<test Module> and C<is_tested>.
>
> The final step of installing would then be done manually.
CPANPLUS commands can be used for that too of course, and there's even
a plugin for the shell to do just that:
http://search.cpan.org/~mgrimes/CPANPLUS-Shell-Default-Plugins-
Prereqs-0.07/lib/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default/Plugins/Prereqs.pm
Cheers,
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