"cpan -l" run without configuration

[jplesnik]

Some users use cpan -l only to get information about installed Perl modules as part of system inquiries, but they do not use cpan for installing modules at all.

I would like to ask whether configuring cpan is necessary when I am only interested in listing the modules. Or would it be possible to modify cpan so that in such cases, it skips the configuration, similar to how it works with cpan -h?

[briandfoy]

That's a good suggestion. I can only trigger the config for the options I know that need them instead of merely ignoring -h specifically. I've fixed this in the forked version of my cpan script in https://github.com/briandfoy/app-cpan-upgraded . I've forked my cpan script since this repo is effectively unmaintained (#187).

[michal-josef-spacek]

@briandfoy Thank you.

btw: I think there are other options here where it's worth thinking about. e.g. -a is creating a bundle file. This is similar as list, only in a different form.

[briandfoy]

The -a merely calls CPAN::Shell->autobundle, so it needs the config.