In a presentation at the Second German Perl Workshop, Andreas König, author of CPAN, gave a talk on his module, mentioning explicitly that you are expected to manage the dependencies in a bundle file yourself. The autobundle feature is merely a convenience to get you started.

My advice would be to generate a snapshot with the autobundle feature, and then hand-tune it till you like it. Core modules should be avoided, since they will install a new perl (as brother Fastolfe pointed out). You can install core modules *without* installing a new perl by hand-fetching (or building) a distribution tarball for them, and installing that by a local script.

This trivial subroutine does a simple install from a distribution tarball under Linux/Unix: 

sub install_perl_module {
    my ($tarball) = @_;
    my $dir = $tarball;
    $dir =~ s/\.tar\.gz//;

    my $cmd = 'tar -zxvf ' . $tarball . ' ; ' .
        'pushd ' . $dir . ' ; ' .
            'perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test ; make install ; ' .
                'popd';
    system($cmd);
}

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In reply to Re: CPAN module by clemburg
in thread CPAN module by MCauth

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