Dry running a CPAN install

[alex@owal.co.uk]

> Is there a way of dry running a CPAN install - if I want to install
> Widget::Fred that needs Widget::Fred::Joe which needs
> XXX::Half::of::CPAN which needs.......
>
> It would be nice to know whether isntalling is going to be an easy job
> or a take you all morning sorting out hte dependencies.
>
>
You can tell it to install in a different location. You dont have to put
them into the main library tree.

Of course now you are going to ask how to do that.... :-)

Will that help?