On 06/06/2010 04:50:15 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:30:36AM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > > ExtUtils::MakeMaker needs ExtUtils::Installed which needs > > ExtUtils::MakeMaker, so a clean install in not possible. > > How come? > > ExtUtils::MakeMaker doesn't list a dependency on ExtUtils::Installed, > bundles > its own of ExtUtils::Installed, and your perl installation will > already have > a copy of ExtUtils::Installed installed. > > How does this fail to work in practice? > > Nicholas Clark >
Hmmm ... sorry that I was not more clear. Here's what I did. (No need to ask why :-) ExtUtils::MakeMaker was previously installed from the Fedora 12 rpm. I removed it. There was no ExtUtils::Installed. Then I attempted to install ExtUtils::MakeMaker using the cpan script. It failed as ExtUtils::Installed.pm was not available. Installing ExtUtils::Installed failed as ExtUtils::MakeMaker was not available. Not something that everyone does :-), but I thought you'd want to know. Regards.
