Are you sure it is "opt out?" Or is this specific to a certain platform? I've never had any coloring in my terminal on any number of OS X and Linux flavors on any of the 15 or more versions of CPAN I've used the shell with; on the most recent version now and it's just plain terminal text.

Maybe some package changed the settings on you...? This is what mine shows (I had no idea the settings existed till reading your post)- 

    colorize_debug     undef
    colorize_output    undef
    colorize_print     undef
    colorize_warn      undef

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Update: solution-wise, you can probably find and edit your CPAN/MyConfig.pm to remove the settings.

In reply to Re^3: They've fscked with CPAN.pm again by Your Mother
in thread They've fscked with CPAN.pm again by BrowserUk

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