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(Randal L. Schwartz) schrieb: >>>>>>"yaron" == yaron <yaron@kahanovitch.com> writes: > > > yaron> I am using cpan to install modules. > yaron> From time to time I have to uninstall a module. > yaron> Untill now I did not find a tool to do it. > yaron> Is there an official tool for this? > > No, because the CPAN.pm shell is an installer, not a packager. It does not > maintain a list of which files belong to which installations, and will happily > let two installations both write to the same file. This will be problematic > when you want to remove one of those installations later. > Maybe the OP could use CPANPLUS, which offers the desired uninstall-functionality. Worked fine the last time I used it, before i chose to just ignore no-longer-wanted-nor-needed modules. YMMV, of course. Greetings, Andreas Pürzer -- perl -mAcme::JAPHThread Previous | Thread Next