On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:53:19AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > 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.
Are there any OSs that actually do that? I can tell you that OpenBSD, Slackware and OSX don't. And what's with perl retrying the same URL with every method it has available when it gets a 404? LWP returns a 404, so it tries to use lynx to fetch the same http url. Uh, hello? -Zach
