Re: CPAN install difficulties on CentOS 4.4
- From: Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:42:36 -0500
"dan" <dhazer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I just finished install some modules (i.e. Archive::Tar Compress::Zlib
and its dependencies)
because in order to install any other module it needed the above two.
So here's my question, why doesn't cpan come installed with these base
packages so that basic installations can be made from the cpan
interface instead of having to manually install modules?
Simple answer: CPAN.pm will use those modules if they're available, but they
aren't required. It'll fall back to executing external "tar" and "gunzip"
commands if the modules aren't available.
Same thing with LWP - CPAN.pm will happily use LWP if it's available, but will
also fall back to external commands like wget, curl, or lynx if necessary.
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