Dear monks,

I am a bit confused what happened, After installing cpanm DBD::mysql I accidentally typed in cpanm DBD instead of cpanm DBI. As far as I can see DBD is not an existing module (except that it contains a lot of sub-modules) but I got:

cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7043 on perl 5.026002 built for MSWin32-x64-m
+ulti-thread
Work directory is C:\Users\<my username>/.cpanm/work/1550942634.10904
You have make C:\Strawberry64\c\bin\gmake.exe
You have LWP 6.34
Falling back to Archive::Tar 2.26
Searching DBD () on cpanmetadb ...
--> Working on DBD
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GM/GMPASSOS/HDB-1.05.tar.gz
-> OK
Unpacking HDB-1.05.tar.gz
Entering HDB-1.05
...
...

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Luckily the installation failed because this is not what I intended, but I can't figure out why the installation of HDB started. So I like to know what happened?

In reply to cpanm, entered non existing module by accident, but installation started by Veltro

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