Forgot to mention that I used perlbrew to install a new perl and CPAN::Mini over it. Not sure if that changes the perspective

Hi,

Because you're dealing with perlbrew I'd check to make sure there isn't more than one configuration for minicpan , just in case (I dont expect one to exist)

I'd would also increase debugging/logging/verbosity level in the configuration

And report this problem to the developer as it sounds important

You might want to also try CPAN::Mini::NoLargeFiles - Create a CPAN mirror excluding files that are too large

as Lingua-EN-SENNA is 185MB and perl source distributions are +10MB