diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index b8d0ac1e2..d5369c82a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ lib/POE/Wheel/SocketFactory.pm
 mylib/Devel/Null.pm
 mylib/ForkingDaemon.pm
 mylib/MyOtherFreezer.pm
-mylib/PoeBuildInfo.pm
 mylib/coverage.perl
 mylib/cpan-test.perl
 mylib/events_per_second.pl
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index aa6d83aa6..c06b99cde 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -82,17 +82,102 @@ unless ($ret =~ /^Y$/i) {
 
 print "\n";
 
-use lib qw(./mylib);
-use PoeBuildInfo qw(
-  TEST_FILES
-  CLEAN_FILES
-  CORE_REQUIREMENTS
-  DIST_ABSTRACT
-  DIST_AUTHOR
-  CONFIG_REQUIREMENTS
-  HOMEPAGE
-  REPOSITORY
-);
+sub CONFIG_REQUIREMENTS () {
+  (
+    "POE::Test::Loops"  => '1.360',
+  );
+}
+
+sub CORE_REQUIREMENTS () {
+  my @core_requirements = (
+    "Carp"              => 0,
+    "Errno"             => '1.09',
+    "Exporter"          => 0,
+    "File::Spec"        => '0.87',
+    "IO"                => '1.24',  # MSWin32 blocking(0)
+    "IO::Handle"        => '1.27',
+    "IO::Pipely"        => '0.005',
+    "POSIX"             => '1.02',
+    "Socket"            => '1.7',
+    "Storable"          => '2.16',
+    "Test::Harness"     => '2.26',
+    "Time::HiRes"       => '1.59',
+    CONFIG_REQUIREMENTS,
+  );
+
+  if (-f 'META.yml') { # only include dynamic deps when installing
+    if ($^O eq "MSWin32") {
+      push @core_requirements, (
+        "Win32::Console" => '0.031',
+        "Win32API::File" => '0.05',
+        "Win32::Job"     => '0.03',
+        "Win32::Process" => 0,
+        "Win32"          => 0,
+      );
+    }
+    elsif ($^O eq 'cygwin') {
+      # Skip IO::Tty.  It has trouble building as of this writing.
+    }
+    else {
+      push @core_requirements, (
+        "IO::Tty"        => '1.08', # avoids crashes on fbsd
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  return @core_requirements;
+}
+
+sub DIST_AUTHOR () {
+  ( 'Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@cpan.org>' )
+}
+
+sub DIST_ABSTRACT () {
+  ( 'Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.' )
+}
+
+sub CLEAN_FILES () {
+  my @clean_files = qw(
+    */*/*/*/*~
+    */*/*/*~
+    */*/*/*~
+    */*/*~
+    */*~
+    *~
+    META.yml
+    Makefile.old
+    bingos-followtail
+    coverage.report
+    poe_report.xml
+    run_network_tests
+    t/20_resources/10_perl
+    t/20_resources/10_perl/*
+    t/20_resources/20_xs
+    t/20_resources/20_xs/*
+    t/30_loops
+    t/30_loops/*
+    t/30_loops/*/*
+    test-output.err
+  );
+  "@clean_files";
+}
+
+sub TEST_FILES () {
+  my @test_files = qw(
+    t/*.t
+    t/*/*.t
+    t/*/*/*.t
+  );
+  "@test_files";
+}
+
+sub REPOSITORY () {
+  'https://github.com/rcaputo/poe'
+}
+
+sub HOMEPAGE () {
+  'http://poe.perl.org/'
+}
 
 ### Touch files that will be generated at "make dist" time.
 ### ExtUtils::MakeMaker will complain about them if
@@ -142,14 +227,14 @@ sub check_for_modules {
 check_for_modules("required", CORE_REQUIREMENTS);
 check_for_modules(
   "optional",
-  "Compress::Zlib"        => 1.33,
-  "Curses"                => 1.08,
-  "IO::Poll"              => 0.01,
-  "IO::Pty"               => 1.02,
-  "LWP"                   => 5.79,
-  "Term::Cap"             => 1.10,
-  "Term::ReadKey"         => 2.21,
-  "URI"                   => 1.30,
+  "Compress::Zlib"        => '1.33',
+  "Curses"                => '1.08',
+  "IO::Poll"              => '0.01',
+  "IO::Pty"               => '1.02',
+  "LWP"                   => '5.79',
+  "Term::Cap"             => '1.10',
+  "Term::ReadKey"         => '2.21',
+  "URI"                   => '1.30',
 );
 
 # check for optional IPv6 stuff
diff --git a/mylib/PoeBuildInfo.pm b/mylib/PoeBuildInfo.pm
deleted file mode 100644
index 573749fb5..000000000
--- a/mylib/PoeBuildInfo.pm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-# vim: ts=2 sw=2 expandtab
-
-# Build information for POE.  Moved into a library so it can be
-# required by Makefile.PL and gen-meta.perl.
-
-package PoeBuildInfo;
-
-use strict;
-
-use Exporter;
-use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT_OK);
-push @ISA, qw(Exporter);
-
-@EXPORT_OK = qw(
-  TEST_FILES
-  CLEAN_FILES
-  CORE_REQUIREMENTS
-  DIST_ABSTRACT
-  DIST_AUTHOR
-  CONFIG_REQUIREMENTS
-  REPOSITORY
-  HOMEPAGE
-);
-
-
-sub CONFIG_REQUIREMENTS () {
-  (
-    "POE::Test::Loops"  => '1.360',
-  );
-}
-
-sub CORE_REQUIREMENTS () {
-  my @core_requirements = (
-    "Carp"              => 0,
-    "Errno"             => 1.09,
-    "Exporter"          => 0,
-    "File::Spec"        => 0.87,
-    "IO"                => 1.24,  # MSWin32 blocking(0)
-    "IO::Handle"        => 1.27,
-    "IO::Pipely"        => 0.005,
-    "POSIX"             => 1.02,
-    "Socket"            => 1.7,
-    "Storable"          => 2.16,
-    "Test::Harness"     => 2.26,
-    "Time::HiRes"       => 1.59,
-    CONFIG_REQUIREMENTS,
-  );
-
-  if ($^O eq "MSWin32") {
-    push @core_requirements, (
-      "Win32::Console" => 0.031,
-      "Win32API::File" => 0.05,
-      "Win32::Job"     => 0.03,
-      "Win32::Process" => 0,
-      "Win32"          => 0,
-    );
-  }
-  elsif ($^O eq 'cygwin') {
-    # Skip IO::Tty.  It has trouble building as of this writing.
-  }
-  else {
-    push @core_requirements, (
-      "IO::Tty"        => 1.08, # avoids crashes on fbsd
-    );
-  }
-
-  return @core_requirements;
-}
-
-sub DIST_AUTHOR () {
-  ( 'Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@cpan.org>' )
-}
-
-sub DIST_ABSTRACT () {
-  ( 'Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.' )
-}
-
-sub CLEAN_FILES () {
-  my @clean_files = qw(
-    */*/*/*/*~
-    */*/*/*~
-    */*/*/*~
-    */*/*~
-    */*~
-    *~
-    META.yml
-    Makefile.old
-    bingos-followtail
-    coverage.report
-    poe_report.xml
-    run_network_tests
-    t/20_resources/10_perl
-    t/20_resources/10_perl/*
-    t/20_resources/20_xs
-    t/20_resources/20_xs/*
-    t/30_loops
-    t/30_loops/*
-    t/30_loops/*/*
-    test-output.err
-  );
-  "@clean_files";
-}
-
-sub TEST_FILES () {
-  my @test_files = qw(
-    t/*.t
-    t/*/*.t
-    t/*/*/*.t
-  );
-  "@test_files";
-}
-
-sub REPOSITORY () {
-  'https://github.com/rcaputo/poe'
-}
-
-sub HOMEPAGE () {
-  'http://poe.perl.org/'
-}
-
-1;