So what is the OP supposed to do, wait the rest of his life to see if you are right? Or perhaps use the cpan utility instead!

Install/upgrade ExtUtils::MakeMaker, to undo ActieState modifications, so when ppm installs stuff, it doesn't try to update documentation, which is SUPER SLOW on laptops and other "low RPM" hard disks because it reads/writes a thousand files TWICE, for every distribution installed

Its not a big deal on 10,000RPM hard disks but on 5400RPM laptop disk it is SLOW

Not sure if they still do this nonsense in 2016, its been a while since I stopped using it, see Re: PPM performs uneeded checks, Re^3: How to change compiler options used by cpan ?,

Also speaking of dates, that node is from 2007 , something to consider ... Sad news