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CPAN and PERL Modules

From the CLI:

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 perl -MCPAN -e shell

would

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cpan> install XML::LibXML::SAX

install the dependencies as well?

Depends on what you set on CPANs first run, when it prompts for configuration
data. Find your Config.pm and grep it for prerequisites_policy ....

Cheers,
Tink

You can also just set it to follow by executing the following within the shell.

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cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy follow

HTH

Forrest

It's also worth mentioning that some distributions (like Gentoo) use Perl as the core-language of their maintenance system. To help protect that system, they ship slightly-unconventional defaults for fundamental things like the order of the @INC list.

You might therefore find yourself in a situation that is directly analogous to "installing Perl stuff on a shared-hosting system where you are not allowed to supersede the system defaults but must instead make a 'per-user' type of installation." Perl does support this, through facilities like PERL5LIB, PREFIX, and various CPAN configuration-settings. In fact, it does it quite well. But, it's not entirely obvious.

What those vendors are intentionally trying to ensure is, in fact, what you can thereby achieve, namely: you can set up your Perl any way that you like, without being able to inadvertantly "torch" the Perl configuration upon which the distro's maintenance-software depends.