At 17:29 -0500 16/01/2011, Levan, Jerry wrote:
Is doing a:
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
The standard way of preparing to install modules?
Seems like root might only be needed for actual installation...
With sudo you are superuser; that's quite good enough.
I never do it that way. I just type sudo cpan, as I said.
In fact I don't usually do that because I work mainly with my own
installation of perl, so I do
$ cd /usr/local/bin; sudo ./cpan
in order to get the modules installed where I want them and not in
the Apple installation. I wouldn't trust Apple to overwrite their
own installation. I trust them to take my money and not much else.
JD
