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/me really shouldn't have opened his big mouth.

For the record, I happen to agree with every single point you've made. If I felt that Schwern would have listened to me, I would have made those points to him a year ago when I first read about this entire ... "thing". (That was a comment on my lack of clout, not his lack of listening skills.)

Personally, I think that MakeMaker should be platform dependent, similar to File::Spec. If Debian is weird, then have a ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Debian. VMS, Win32 ... whatever. One size doesn't fit all.

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