Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff?

Jerry D. Hedden jdhedden@cpan.org
Thu Feb 28 15:35:00 GMT 2008


>   It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
>  manually set the package to "Skip" in the chooser.  Frankly it's a hundred
>  times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.

My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe.  Hence why I
brought it up.

What is the bug?

Where is the mandatory/optional flags for modules?

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