you could tell the user to specify a PREFIX, although that doesn't always work

i've read schwern's slides, but i always thought, perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=... LIB=... would work on all systems? so using

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/perl LIB=~/perl

use lib "$ENV{HOME}/perl";
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doesn't work on some systems? (i'm using that for cgipan, so it would be interesting to know where that doesn't work)

oops, s/slices/slides/, thanks Happy-the-monk =)