Ah, nice. just checked, and cpan doesn't have this. It should, though.

Finally, someone has given me an advantage to cpanm.

• Has --reinstall
• Uses less memory, allowing it to be used on some embedded systems I don't use.
• You have to use curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus instead of press Enter the first time you use it.
• Less configurable.
• Hides output, so it appears to be doing nothing for minutes at a time.

Hi ikegami,

I'm sure it's because of lack of knowledge on my side. But starting with cpanm in combination with local::lib I do the following very often to test distributions and to get a feeling about the dependency tree resulting from installing these:

mkdir mylib
cpanm -v -L ./mylib Probably::Fat::Dist # yes, yes -v: I also like out
+put
perl -Mlocal::lib=./mylib -MProbably::Fat::Dist -E'say "Get feet wet w
+ith Probably::Fat::Dist"'
rm -rf ./mylib
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I'm sure there is a way to do it with cpan, but I never learned it neither used it. Can you show an equivalent? (I'm really interested on systems without cpanm)

Regards
McA

Using local::lib causes problems because of its use of INSTALL_BASE. I never use it.

That will be missing dependencies that are already installed, right? http://deps.cpantesters.org/ is your friend. Provides min versions too.