use strict;
use ExtUtils::Packlist;
use ExtUtils::Installed;
use List::Util qw(first);

$ARGV[0] or die "Usage: $0 Module::Name\n";

my $mod = $ARGV[0];

die "Does not looks like a module name"
  unless $mod =~ m{\w+(::\w+)*};

my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new();

die "Can't find module $mod using .packlist files\n"
  unless first { /$mod/ } ( $inst->modules );
foreach my $item ( sort( $inst->files($mod) ) ) {
    print "removing $item\n";

      unlink $item
    or warn "Can't remove $item try by hand!\n";
}

my $packfile = $inst->packlist($mod)->packlist_file();
print "removing $packfile\n";

  unlink $packfile
or warn "Can't remove $packfile try by hand!\n";

=head1 NAME

pmrm -- remove installed perl distribution module


=head1 SYNOPSIS

    pmrm Some::Module

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