Better yet, if you want to write more than about 2 modules, just write your own. h2xs adds more useless junk with every Perl release, and Module::Starter seems no better. When you write your own, you type in all and only the boilerplate you want when you write it, and you don't have extraneous garbage inserted when you create future modules. Here's what I use: 
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use Getopt::Long;

$ME = q|WHATEVER|;

sub usage
{
    print STDERR <<'EOS';
Usage: newmod.pl [-u 'Name <user@host>'] Module::Name
EOS
    exit 1;
}

GetOptions('user:s' => \$ME) && @ARGV == 1 or usage;

$mod = shift;
($dir = $mod) =~ s/::/-/g;
mkdir $dir or die $!;
chdir $dir;

sub cat
{
    my $o = shift;
    open OUT, ">$o" or die $!;
    print OUT $_ for @_;
    close OUT;
}

($file = $mod) =~ s/.*:://;

cat 'Makefile.PL', <<EOS;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(
    NAME              => '$mod',
    VERSION_FROM      => '$file.pm',
    PREREQ_PM         => { },
    (\$] >= 5.005 ?     ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.00
+5
      (AUTHOR         => q|$ME|) : ()),
    ABSTRACT          => 'Something.',
);
EOS

cat "$file.pm", <<EOS;
package $mod;

=head1 NAME

$mod -- Whatever it does...

=head1 SYNOPSIS



=cut

\$VERSION = '0.01';

1;
__END__

=head1 DESCRIPTION



=head1 AUTHOR

${ME}

Bug reports welcome, patches even more welcome.

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) $y $ME.  All rights reserved, some wrongs reversed.
This module is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

=cut
EOS

cat "test.pl", <<EOS;
use Test::Simple tests => 1;
use $mod;
ok(1, 'loaded');
EOS

(undef, undef, undef, $d, $m, $y) = localtime;
$y += 1900;
cat "ChangeLog", <<EOS;
$y-$m-$d  $ME
    * original version; created by newmod.pl
EOS

cat "README", <<EOS;
$mod version 0.01

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install


DEPENDENCIES

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) $y, $ME

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
EOS

cat 'MANIFEST', <<EOS;
Makefile.PL
MANIFEST
README
test.pl
$file.pm
EOS

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In reply to Re^2: Write a Perl module from scratch by educated_foo
in thread Write a Perl module from scratch by Anonymous Monk

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