>>>>> "Telemachus" == Telemachus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Telemachus> On Jun 22, 3:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: >> Note: the CPAN Shell and the CPAN-PLUS Shell are not package managers, and >> have no uninstall capability. Telemachus> Cpan-plus can uninstall, but only if you installed the module with Telemachus> cpan-plus originally. I thought that was one of the main benefits Telemachus> of cpanp over cpan (the command not the CPAN). Well, both CPAN and CPANP can *delete* what they *install*, except that they don't really manage to notice that something they installed was also used by some other package. Which means that using either CPAN or CPANP's option to "delete what I installed" means you could damage *another* package that happened to share the same filename, and yes it does happen. A proper package manager would have required human intervention to manage the conflicting ownership of the shared file. And once the human is involved, and ownership established, proper uninstallation is possible. I tried not to have to explain all this in my previous post, but since you challenged my brief explanation, here's the details, yet again. Please, just trust me when I say things in the future. It's faster. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
