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While $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} has been already mentioned, it is worth setting $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING} also.

Here are some pointer about $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING}:

  • The Oslo Consensus
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  • CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::Environment

    Well behaved modules should check for that env var also

    But I wouldn't count on the fact that modules that don't use prompt() are few, here's a list of distro's that are using STDIN directly: Distributions failing 'no_stdin_for_prompting' - experimental

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