Re: how is the CPAN_OPTS environment variable supposed to work?

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I am afraid all I can do is confirm the behaviour you report above.

To workaround it I set a shell alias with alias cpan="cpan -T"

(...although I personally use cpanm...)

Hope this helps!

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Re^2: how is the CPAN_OPTS environment variable supposed to work? by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 03, 2020 at 09:04 UTC
`cpanm` lets you set this up with the environment variable `PERL_CPANM_OPT=-n`, confirmed working.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: how is the CPAN_OPTS environment variable supposed to work? by grobber (Novice) on Jan 03, 2020 at 20:36 UTC
Thanks! The discussion on github has since extended to track down the actual issue in the cpan source code: it pushes the contents of CPAN_OPTS onto the argument array instead of unshifting. We'll see if the devs end up making that small change to fix this.	[reply]
Re^4: how is the CPAN_OPTS environment variable supposed to work? by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 03, 2020 at 20:43 UTC
`cpanm` is faster and lighter on resources, perhaps worth considering anyway, depending on your goal.	[reply] [d/l]

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