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MakeMaker methods spit out hunks of make and shell code
The functionality cannot be seperated from the form
Like having an accounting function that returns prices in HTML
Customizing MakeMaker involves either completely overriding those methods or doing clever s/// of the fragments of make code. Screen-scraping.
Users are responsible for all the cross-platform nightmares MakeMaker tries to take care of
Formatting changes in MakeMaker can break user customizations
Overrides of MakeMaker methods are not forward-compatible
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