Re: [rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Shawn M Moore
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:03:20PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: > >http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Module-Install-0.91/lib/Module/AutoInstall.pm > > > >Documentation. > > > Hm. And when I google the module this link isn't on the first page of >

Re: [rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: Kevin's message didn't say "look in inc and run perldoc on whatever you find", it said to read the documentation for Module::AutoInstall. Lo and behold: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Module-Install-0.91/lib/Module/AutoInstall.pm Docum

Re: [rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:45:20PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: >Or even better -- waste your time. There's no documentation in these >modules. There's no documentation on CPAN either. > >Where exactly can one find docs for the module? Kevin's message didn't say "look in inc and run perl

Re: [rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: You can read the docs for that module and it talks about arguments to Makefile.PL that will simulate testdeps or fixdeps for you, and how to disable auto installation. Ah yes, Perldoc. The greatest way to hide your documentation, so it can only be

Re: [rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Kevin Falcone wrote: It sounds like when you ran perl Makefile.PL there were warnings about missing perl modules that you ignored, and RTFM is configured to run Module::AutoInstall. Nope. It couldn't find the RT root, but I supplied that and then it started runni

Re: [rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Kevin Falcone
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:54:51PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: >I'm trying to install RTFM 2.4.2 and it's trying to set up all sorts of > CPAN stuff. Why? I >can tell you now that this isn't going to work. I'm only using a normal > user account, and >frankly I detest CPAN and the whole

[rt-users] why is RTFM demanding CPAN?

2009-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
I'm trying to install RTFM 2.4.2 and it's trying to set up all sorts of CPAN stuff. Why? I can tell you now that this isn't going to work. I'm only using a normal user account, and frankly I detest CPAN and the whole "screw up all the perl-based software on your system easily and automa