how to avoid cpan indexing ?

From: Jaap Karssenberg (j.g.karssenberg_at_student.utwente.nl)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:15:50 +0100

I have a package that is supposed to go to cpan which contains a module
that is only needed at build/install time, so it isn't intended for
re-use and also it will never conflict with anything because it is
loaded in one special situation only. Previous experiences have learnt
me that cpan will index each and every .pm file and put it in the
database, thus my module will be indexed and cause pollution of the
database.

Now my question is, is there a way to avoid indexing, is there a way to
mark files as not to be indexed ? I see some examples use a "My::"
namespace, is this namespace perhaps special in some way ?

( please note that it isn't an option to simply give the file another
extension ) 

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