On 5/6/07, A. Pagaltzis <[email protected]> wrote:
* Zach White <[email protected]> [2007-05-05 23:30]:
> 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.
No, there aren't any. *All* OSs are hateful in this regard.
Not true actually, CPAN as bundled with ActiveStates installs is
preconfigured these days afair. Actually i find it a little annoying
as it assumes i dont have things I do have. Avoiding this problem is
the reason why we have config in CPAN, and why IMO the original hate
in this thread was not really all that hateful. I mean would the OP
like to use my CPAN config file? I bet not. :-)
Yves
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