after spending way too much time trying to figure out how to get ExtUtils::MakeMaker to ignore copying all the .svn entries under my lib/ to blib/ (using 5.8.0) I finally pinged the right people.
for a bunch of cool tricks when working with Subversion and MakeMaker, see http://rgarciasuarez.free.fr/perl/svnmm.html
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