personal opionion / your motives might vary (and that's totally okay!)

I must confess I almost never bother to install something directly from CPAN. (Hey you guys over there, stop raising a pyre!) I'm just too lazy to regularly check for updates and just let the operating system handle it instead. (Actually I'm also too lazy to update manually and schedule it automatically instead.)

If there's a module that's not packaged (or the packaged version is too old) then I reconsider whether that module is important enough to be worth the trouble to regularly check for updates / bugfixes and keep it up do date. Few are.

In reply to Re^4: Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN by Monk::Thomas
in thread Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN by Weebo

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