Re: Why does CPAN default to "ask" when grabbing dependencies? Why not just follow?

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One thing perlmonks has thought to me is not to question defaults. Some people definitely like that behaiviour, that's why they have set it. If you don't like it, you can change the configuration option "prerequisite_policy" provided that you can spell that word correctly.

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Re^2: Why does CPAN default to "ask" when grabbing dependencies? Why not just follow? by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Dec 26, 2005 at 16:20 UTC
Yes... but... bad for catalyst. Bad generally for setting up perl to do CGI with shared hosting. See Re: A Vision for Easy Web Application Deployment for Perl. (Maybe makes more sense if you read the OP and a bit of the thread as well.)	[reply]

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