I have not done that, But I was thinking of using this code snippet from README on CPAN,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CPAN;
for $mod (qw(MD5 Net::SSH::Perl)){
            my $obj = CPAN::Shell->expand('Module',$mod);
            $obj->install;
        }
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But I was wondering if I could automate it by passing Makefile.PL the arguments like so

$obj->makepl_arg = "arg1 arg2 arg3 ...";
$obj->install;
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Have any one try this? Thanks.