Hmm, I guess I should have stated why I was trying to use CPAN:
The aforementioned tarball/package will be submitted to CPAN; What I am trying to do is to ensure that when someone installs that package via CPAN, the pre-reqs will be installed as well (provided that CPAN is configured to do so).
I put the pre-req modules in the Makefile.PL, but I wanted to make sure CPAN actually requests those modules; and I wanted to test it _before_ the package is submitted to CPAN.
Hope this makes sense...
Thanks for the reply, by the way; that's was darn fast :)
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