Re: Shortest path to a MyConfig

Andreas J. Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
>   =item 5)
> 
>   I am not root, how can I install a module in a personal directory?
> 
>   First of all, you will want to use your own configuration, not the one
>   that your root user installed. The following command sequence is a
>   possible approach:
> 
>       % mkdir -p $HOME/.cpan/CPAN
>       % echo '1;' > $HOME/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
>       % cpan
>       [...answer all questions...]

> It looks cool and straight forward. I wonder if you would still
> recommend your own patch now that I have shown you the section 5 of
> the FAQ?

	I saw that before I wrote up the code, since I didn't think that was
terribly user friendly, and it also required the user to RTFM. :) I also
think my version is Win32 compatible (not really sure? could someone with a
windows box test it?) in the instance where Administrator installs perl and
configures CPAN to write to a directory a regular user can't access.

> If yes, I think I'd call it "mkmyconfig".
> 
> And when you could please add a paragraph of documentation, it's in in
> a second.

	OK, I'll re-do my patch with a snippet of docs. I didn't really
consider that somebody might explicitly run

	perl -MCPAN -e 'mkmyconfig'

	, I was more expecting that they'd just try to run shell and get
burned, but both use cases are perfectly valid.

	Cheers,
		Tyler