[ILUG] Perl & CPAN

[Wesley Darlington]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:43:32AM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> Trying to "install Bundle::LWP" using CPAN but it tries to download
> perl-5.6.0.tar.gz which is a large 5MB or so file that I have no
> intention of installing. Is there any way of telling it to forget that
> file and just accept whatever perl is installed?

Quite a few packages try to download perl-5.6. Quite annoying.
I just hit ^C and it carries on to the next package. However, I 
don't think I've ever interrupted a download of 5.6, only a
perl Makefile.PL.

Wesley.