How you maintain Perl packages installed with cpanm?

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I use cpanminus to install Perl packages to userspace, but i have not found idiomatic way to maintain packages afterwards. How you update, delete (with dependencies) and get overview of listed packages?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3727795/how-do-i-update-all-my-cpan-module-to-their-latest-versions — jmcneirney, Sep 17 '12 at 17:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '12 at 13:40

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You can use cpan-outdated. The man page has clear instructions for how to use with cpanminus.

answered Sep 17 '12 at 13:40

pmakholm

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Some way to get rid of all unwanted packages with dependencies? – w.k Sep 17 '12 at 21:06
No. I do not think that any of the CPAN tools maintains state to decide why a module was installed (explicit request or to fulfil requirement) nor is there any static tracking of how many installed modules depend on a given module. – pmakholm Sep 18 '12 at 08:10
My solution is to keep track of modules I need in a number of [Task](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Task) inspired metapackages and then install all modules from scratch now and then. But I am also using [perlbrew](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?perlbrew) for regular updates of perl itself. – pmakholm Sep 18 '12 at 08:19

How you maintain Perl packages installed with cpanm?

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