Scripted installs

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:05:02AM +0200, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> I'm downloading random stuff on CPAN right now, and having it ask me
> all sorts of fiddly questions ("do you want to install GET as an
> alias?" -- argh!) is making me want to put the answers to in a file,

You want to read this bit of the CPAN.pm manpage:
  http://search.cpan.org/~andk/CPAN-1.9205/lib/CPAN.pm#Configuration_for_individual_distributions_(Distroprefs)

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