Bug#741302: --uninstall mentioned twice on man page

[Tatsuhiko Miyagawa]

already fixed on master and dev release of cpanm on CPAN.


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org>wrote:

> X-debbugs-Cc: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa at bulknews.net>
> Package: cpanminus
> Version: 1.7001-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/cpanm.1p.gz
>
> We see
>        -U, --uninstall
>            EXPERIMENTAL: Uninstalls the modules. Will remove the
> distribution
>            files from your library path using the ".packlist" file.
>
>            When used with "-l" or "-L", only the files under the local::lib
>            directory will be removed.
>
>            NOTE: If you have the "dual-life" module in multiple locations
>            (i.e. "site_perl" and "perl" library path, with perl 5.12 or
>            later), only the files in "site_perl" will be deleted.
>
>            If the distribution has bin scripts and man, they will be kept
> in
>            case the core installation still references that, although
> there's
>            no guarantee that the script will continue working as expected
> with
>            the older version of .pm files.
>
> then we see
>
>        --uninstall, -U
>            Uninstalls a module from the library path. It finds a packlist
> for
>            given modules, and removes all the files included in the same
>            distribution.
>
>            If you enable local::lib, it only removes files from the
> local::lib
>            directory.
>
>            If you try to uninstall a module in "perl" directory (i.e. core
>            module), an error will be thrown.
>
>            A dialog wil be prompted to confirm the files to be deleted. If
> you
>            pass "-f" option as well, the dialog will be skipped and
>            uninstallation will be forced.
>
> all on the same man page.
>
> Also perhaps say
>        -U, --uninstall <modules>
> else it reads like it will remove all the modules.
>



-- 
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
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