use Perl

For less trickery with subs and call stacks and line numbers, remember your old friend 'do'!

$ perl -le'print join " ", (1, do { warn 2; () }, 3)'
2 at -e line 1.
1 3

CPANPLUS uses far less on my machine, but YMMV; for those strapped for ram, there's the option to use an SQLite backend.

To enable it, simply follow the following steps from the default shell:

### set SQLite as the backend
CPAN Terminal> s conf source_engine CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::SQLite

### update any dependencies (will install sqlite drivers if you need them)
CPAN Terminal> s selfupdate dependencies

### save configuration
CPAN Terminal> s save

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