Where is CPAN shell full documentation

mvanle has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I type "man cpan" or "perldoc cpan" I get a CPAN man page.

Is there full documentation for CPAN shell ?

For example, I want to read about what the "wait_list" config option does etc.

Is there a perldoc tutorial on CPAN ?

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Re: Where is CPAN shell full documentation by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 29, 2024 at 07:23 UTC
The documentation for the `cpan` shell lives in CPAN. The command line information lives in the cpan script. I believe the configuration options are documented in CPAN::FirstTime. I found these via CPAN.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Where is CPAN shell full documentation by mvanle (Acolyte) on Aug 30, 2024 at 01:14 UTC
Ah ok. I was executing man and perldoc against "cpan" instead of "CPAN".	[reply]
Re: Where is CPAN shell full documentation by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 29, 2024 at 07:55 UTC
You probably want to read is CPAN::WAIT dead?, as the cpan docs say "Arrayref to a wait server to try (See CPAN::WAIT)", then ignore this totally. See also `perldoc perldoc`.	[reply] [d/l]