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  • autobundle should be the way to go. Dependencies are resolved in
    two ways: because the old installation already had the
    dependencies resolved, so you have all required modules also in
    the new installation, and because CPAN.pm anyway makes sure that
    dependencies are always resolved.

    But there's one gotcha: it can happen that left-over modules from
    older versions of large distribution may cause the old
    distribution to be installed again. Usually one protects himself
    by using UNINST=1 while installing distributions, b

    • Thank you all who answered. Yes, autobundle is an answer to the basic feature request.

      For my production stuff, installing extra crap is undesired. But that's not what I'm talking about here.

      I'm more focused on my development stuff. Here, I not only want hard dependencies, like CPAN handles, but also soft dependencies.

      For example, Test::Critic, as I mentioned, installs just fine without Test::Deep. So, as I understand autobundle's workings (now that I'm looking at it), it will always install Test::Critic first, thus skipping the tests which depend upon Test::Deep. Thus, if there's a problem on my system that those tests will detect, which is system-specific, it'll go undetected.

      So autobundle's a crude starting point, but it could use some significant improvements.

      • So if I understand you correctly, then you want support for the "recommends" field in META.yml? As far as I know CPAN.pm cannot handle "recommends" (yet). But it shouldn't be to hard to implement it.

        • That is probably accurate, as far as it goes.  :)

          That having been said, I don't see the recommends as 100% synonymous with the concept.  Module A can recommend module B because it is complementary to module A, even though there's no code interactions, and no tests which one can do for the other.  I'm not interested in that kind of a relationship, as far as this rebuilding goes.

          Specifically, what I'm looking for, for a test-happy build, is the ability to install all test dependencies - both ha

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