Re^3: Should cpanminus be part of the standard Perl release?

cpanm has it's advantages, one being speed, it's simply a lot faster.

How can that be? cpan and cpanm are simply front ends for the installers provided by the distributions.

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Re^4: Should cpanminus be part of the standard Perl release? by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 24, 2018 at 16:05 UTC
This isn't strictly true, both packages work differently, as the anonymonk has commented on. Shortly I'll be in a position to demonstrate some evidence/test cases.	[reply]
Re^4: Should cpanminus be part of the standard Perl release? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2018 at 22:32 UTC
How can that be? cpan and cpanm are simply front ends for the installers provided by the distributions. Because it never tries to download `1,781,641 02packages.details.txt.gz` and then unzip/load into a `44,652,400 sourcefiles.s2.39.c0.9133.stored` or `21,497,461 Metadata` or a `18,997,248 cpandb.sql` These numbers are a 2-6 years old, thats when I switched to cpanminus away from cpanplus and rarely cpan	[reply] [d/l] [select]