Re: What am I doing wrong? A bad end-user experience

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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.
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