On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > CPAN.pm is configured to automatically follow prerequsites but it > still stops and ask the question > > ... is just needed temporarily during building or testing. Do you want > to install it permanently (y/n) [yes] > > Why is that and can I configure the CPAN client to automatically > answer yes to such questions?
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 Set that to "yes". N.B. As of the latest CPAN.pm development version, the default for that is now "yes", the default for the regular "prerequisites_policy" is "follow", and if the latter is "follow" CPAN now automatically sets the PERL_AUTOINSTALL for default dependencies. That doesn't help people with an existing config, but at least going forward it should be less annoying to new users. -- David
