Well, I am probably revealing myself as a societal outcast for posting on Christmas, but here I am :)

Anyway, I just set prerequisites_policy' => q[follow]"in Config.pm, in my ongoing quest to make catalyst install on a shared host slightly less painful.

It is set to "ask" by default, which for me seems counterintuitive, since the whole point of cpan is to make life easier, and answering yes, yes, yes, yes, yes for prereq after prereq seems not the way to go.

So my question is, is there a reason cpan defaults to ask instead of follow? And if so, where is safe to follow, and under which conditions are you better off having cpan ask?

In reply to Why does CPAN default to "ask" when grabbing dependencies? Why not just follow? by tphyahoo

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