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From:
Moore, Paul
Date:
March 20, 2000 02:12
Subject:
RE: A plea for more pollution
Message ID:
714DFA46B9BBD0119CD000805FC1F53BDC3A4C@UKRUX002.rundc.uk.origin-it.com
From: Nick Ing-Simmons [mailto:nick@ing-simmons.net]
> At very least I ask there be something those of us that are 
> hurt by the pollution and/or have taken the trouble to do
> the right thing can put in Makefile.PL to force the issue.

This is backwards. The conscientious authours should not be penalised. There
is already an incantation which authors who can't/won't fix their modules
can use - POLLUTE=1. And even better, it can be added by the user on the
command line.

Just possibly, CPAN.pm could include a "blacklist" of known polluted
mosules, for which POLLUTE=1 is added to the make incantation.

Paul.
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