On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Foo Bar <f...@bar.com> wrote: >> http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.9402/lib/CPAN.pm#Config_Variables >> >> build_requires_install_policy >> to install or not to install when a module is >> only needed for building. yes|no|ask/yes|ask/no >> > > Unfortunately that doesn't helpt with > > ==> Auto-install the 1 optional module(s) from CPAN? [y]
Correct. That's generally the "fault" of authors using Module::Install with Module::AutoInstall trying to be "helpful". You can set various environment variables to avoid those: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Module-Install-0.94/lib/Module/AutoInstall.pm#ENVIRONMENT -- David