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On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Christopher Hicks wrote: > 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, If CPAN made it easy to install unintended software by mistake, that would be a huge security hole. Some people run cpan as root. Defensive programming is absolutely the right thing here. Chris -- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703 Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software (http://www.media-landscape.com/) and partners in the revolutionary Croquet project (http://www.opencroquet.org/)Thread Previous | Thread Next