diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4c6f5681..5e6e2be0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -85,10 +85,11 @@ things that can go wrong:
  - If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're
    probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do
    apt-get install libperl-dev
- - For unprivileged home directory installations, using the local::lib CPAN
-   module is recommended. Read its docs, bootstrap it if needed, ensure that
-   the environment variables are set before running the configure script, and
-   append "--with-perl-lib=site" to the configure parameters to use it.
+ - For unprivileged home directory installations, you probably do not want 
+   to specify --with-perl-lib=(site|vendor). Instead, you can use the 
+   default perl installation target (below the irssi prefix). If you are
+   using local::lib you can also choose to install there by specifying
+   --with-perl-lib=$PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT/lib/perl5
 
 You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD"
 command. It should print something like: