CPAN shell: automatic 'yes' answers?

[Markus Dehmann]

I use the CPAN shell to install a modules:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

But if the module needs a lot of other modules, CPAN asks me

"Do you want to add Date::Calc etc to the download chain? [y]"

and I have to hit enter a thousand times to confirm all the additional
downloads.

Is there an option to allow these additional modules automatically?

Markus

 

[Paul Lalli]

I use the CPAN shell to install a modules:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

But if the module needs a lot of other modules, CPAN asks me

"Do you want to add Date::Calc etc to the download chain? [y]"

and I have to hit enter a thousand times to confirm all the additional
downloads.

Is there an option to allow these additional modules automatically?

Just change the prerequisites policy on the cpan shell by saying
cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy follow

Note that if you want this change to be saved the next time you start
your CPAN shell, you have to commit the changes:

cpan> o conf commit

Paul Lalli