My favorite part of this was reading perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker, getting to the "PREFIX and LIB atribute" section, and finding a paragraph that ends with:

Conflicts between parameters LIB, PREFIX, and the various INSTALL* arguments are resolved so that XXX

where I can only assume that "XXX" is like perl6's ... (the "yadda yadda yadda" operator).

                - tye