* Zach White <[email protected]> [2007-05-05 05:15]: > Is it really so hard to include a sane set of defaults with > CPAN? Why must I go through these acrobatics? In 2007 do we > really need to make each and every person who uses perl set > paths to programs that are standard and located in the path?
I consider that a distro hate. If you build Perl from source, then yes it is reasonable for CPAN.pm to ask a bunch of questions. But if you're installing a package, then your vendor should know a set of reasonable defaults to supply and should damn well supply it. The only thing that's not reasonable for the vendor to pick is your mirror, but *that* is something I think CPAN.pm could figure out for you without forcing you to pick. There are enough GeoIP services around that it could pick a few mirrors automatically and then just wait for you to rubberstamp the list. If you install a vendor-packaged Perl, CPAN shouldn't have any other questions to ask than "is this list of mirrors OK?" Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
