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In <1DFEBFEA-5FEA-11D7-A9E2-003065F6D85A@mathforum.org> Ken Williams wrote: > Ideally, I think, CPAN or CPANPLUS would tell the user "the requested > module is available in the following distributions, which one do you > want to install?". Although that would perhaps be a nice feature to have according to some ( although i feel it is not needed), it would be non-trivial to implement given the current source files from cpan -- ie, not only the indexer, but also cpan.pm and cpanplus would have to be educated quite a bit to understand this. Besides, this feels a lot like an xy problem: the real problem we want to address is a better packaging system for perl, that just transparently Does The Right Thing. My $0.02, -Jos