CPAN uninstall

Bod has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In trying to help installing WWW::Mechanize::Chrome in Strawberry Perl I was trying to install IO::Async but made a typo! I left it doing its thing whilst walking the hound and returned a little over an hour later to find lots if Tk windows popping up during the tests for one of the many dependencies that are being installed...

Is there a simple way to see all the modules that have been recently installed?
Is it possible to delete (some of) them?
Does it matter that there are modules installed that I don't know what they are or what they do?

Disc space is not at a premium so I an sort of assuming that all these modules will just sit there worrying nobody so long as I don't actually use them.

Edited to correct typo in question and to add that the typo I initially made was cpan --force install IO::ASnyc

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Re: CPAN uninstall by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 04, 2021 at 16:24 UTC
Use cpanm. It lets you uninstall modules. Without writing something yourself or just examining your file system nothing springs to mind to list recently installed modules. Does it matter that there are modules installed that I don't know what they are or what they do?" If you uninstall a dependency (or a dependency of a dependency) of a module you rely on, expect problems.	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN uninstall by shmem (Chancellor) on Jan 04, 2021 at 16:27 UTC
isn't there a perllocal.pod somewhere being updated by `cpan`? perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: CPAN uninstall by hippo (Bishop) on Jan 04, 2021 at 17:15 UTC
Yes. `perldoc perllocal` will list all the locally-installed (ie. non-core) modules ordered by time of installation. It should be updated by any installation method including your O/S package manager, cpan, cpanplus, cpanminus, make install, etc. 🦛	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: CPAN uninstall by Bod (Parson) on Jan 04, 2021 at 17:34 UTC
isn't there a `perllocal.pod` somewhere Yes! Found it thanks :) `C:\Strawberry\perl\lib\perllocal.pod`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CPAN uninstall by 1nickt (Canon) on Jan 04, 2021 at 16:37 UTC
Besides the advice to use `cpanm` I suggest using `perlbrew` and its `lib` function to manage your Perl dependencies. E.g. install Perl 5.32 using `perlbrew`, then DO NOT INSTALL ANY MODULES. Create a `perlbrew lib`, e.g. `perl-5.32.0@my-project`, and install your dependencies into that library. In the future you can create new libs and start over, trash your existing libs with `perlbrew lib delete`, etc., all without reinstalling Perl. Hope this helps! The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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