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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > I don't think many people would appreciate getting something installed > they didn't explicitly ask for. Hmmm. I can have extra pain every time I'm installing something to avoid occassionally getting something I don't want or I can have pain every thousandth time I install something because oopsie I got something extra. It doesn't seem like a hard choice to me. Let's just say your many people aren't the same folks as my any people. ;-) The lack of distname support due to anal retentive accident avoidance in CPAN is utterly odd considering the culture of DWIMery that is so much a part of Perl. I'm not surprised that one person would think this was good, but the whole Perl community acquiescing to it is quite a shock. -- </chris> "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman, physicist and Nobel laureateThread Previous | Thread Next