Michael G Schwern via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Wed Mar 19 21:21:46 2008: Request 34270 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by MSCHWERN
> Queue: CPAN-Mini-Extract
> Subject: Run without remote if offline is given
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: Wishlist
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: mschwern@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=34270 >
>
>
> I already have an up to date local mini CPAN mirror so there's no need
> to update it so there's no need to give CPAN::Mini::Extract a remote
> mirror. Yet it wants one even if offline is set.
>
This bug is caused by being "isa CPAN::Mini"...
I've asked the CPAN::Mini author about fixing this, but it might not be
relevant.
A better solution I've been pondering lately would be to re-architect
CPAN::Mini::Extract to break the isa and move to inheritance by composition.
Adam K