-Do you want to install only the version-specific parts of the perl
-distribution? Usually you do *not* want to do this.
+Do you want to use a version number suffix for installed binaries? This
+will install 'perl$version' instead of 'perl', and likewise for other
+binaries like 'perldoc' and 'cpan'. This allows many versions of perl
+to be installed side-by-side. Unless you are a developer, you probably
+do *not* want to do this.