On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
Which brings up a question that's been nagging at me. There must be someIt's a bug, not a feature. :-)
way to tell CPAN, "don't upgrade Perl unless I tell you to, and if some
other module you're trying to install needs a new version of Perl, try to
find an older version of the module that doesn't," isn't there?
The latest CPAN module doesn't have the bug. Also, when installed by itself, rather than as part of the Bundle::CPAN package, it has no dependencies that will trigger the bug in older versions.
That's why I advised installing the latest CPAN.pm first, separately from Bundle::CPAN - because the bundle _does_ have at least one such dependency.
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