> >>>> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:46:29 +0000, Nicholas Clark <nick@[...].org> said:

  >  Anyway, help wanted. Does anyone want to do any of:

  >  6: Propose a patch for CPAN.pm

I have a partial solution[0] but there is an obstacle. Here's the
Makefile.PL of the CPAN version of Switch-1.14:

  use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
  WriteMakefile(
      NAME =>  q[Switch],
      VERSION_FROM =>  q[Switch.pm],
      PREREQ_PM =>  { 'Filter::Util::Call' => 0, 'Text::Balanced' => 0 },
      INSTALLDIRS =>  $] >= 5.00703 ? 'perl' : 'site',
  );

For all modules that set INSTALLDIRS to 'perl' the installation simply
overwrites the already installed Switch.pm or even refrains from doing
it when the files are really identical. In such a case installing from
CPAN with MakeMAker does not resolve the situation.

Are you intending to demand that these distros be changed to always
specify "site"?

-- 
andreas
[0] git://github.com/andk/cpanpm.git commit 22a8f07