CPANPLUS and Mac OSX

OK, so I'm interested in installing the Connotea code base on my mac for
development reasons. It will be the first time that I am going to start
playing around with a largish perl installation on my macine and there are a
lot of perl dependencies to be installed. Rather than going through CPAN
module by module, and rather than writing a bundle file for the connotea
dependancies (because I don't know how to do that yet) I decided to try to
use CPANPLUS, due to the tips on perl administration with
CPANPLUS

My first attempt to instal CPANPLUS didn't seem to get very far, then I read
that someone had succeeded by installing it into /Useres/Shared as root, so
that's what I tried and it seems to work. To be safe I ran the following
commands on the advice of the program itself:

$ perl bin/cpanp-boxed -s selfupdate dependencies
$ perl bin/cpanp-boxed -s selfupdate enabled_features