Re: What am I doing wrong? A bad end-user experience
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters |
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On 12.09.26 00:25, Michael Conrad wrote: > > To clarify, I'm suggesting that each time someone installs a perl module > with CPAN.pm it would leave the .tar.gz in a cache directory within ~/ > perl5/ and also write the name of what was installed in some sort of > log. That log could be replayed on a new version of perl using the same > original files, and very likely get a user back to where they left off. > The process of this re-installation could be a built-in feature of CPAN.pm The log thing sounds a lot like 'perldoc perllocal'. Log + replay built into CPAN sounds like the (underdocumented) autobundle feature. See 'cpan -a' and 'autobundle' in perldoc CPAN.