Greets,

Keeping perl/MANIFEST up-to-date is boring and pointless.  We have to
generate it on the fly when building the CPAN tarball anyway, because we have
to pull in the contents of core/, clownfish/, etc.

The only reason we keep perl/MANIFEST around is because we can't stop
`perl Build.PL` from complaining if the file isn't there.

However, I just discovered a neat quirk: `perl Build.PL` only complains about
missing files, not extra ones.

Solution: clear out perl/MANIFEST so that it consists of only explanatory
comments and stop maintaining it.

Module::Build still complains about extra files when it you run either
`./Build distcheck` or `./Build distclean` (which runs distcheck), but that
matters less.  For a long time now I've been running `./Build realclean`
instead of distclean so I don't have to see the complaints; we can put a
suggestion to that effect into the comments in our fake MANIFEST file.

Marvin Humphrey

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