I apologise for necro'ing this thread but for the benefit of those that come after, here is the "proper" way to disable the HTML docs in ActivePerl:
ppm config install_html 0
You can also get a list of all the ppm configuration options with the following command:
C:\Users\DEV>ppm config list
ppm config *name* [ *value* ]
Get or set various PPM configuration values.
The following configuration options might be of interest:
arch
The architecture of the current database. For internal use
+.
Don't change this.
repo_dbimage
If set to '1' look for package.db.gz indexes in repositori
+es
before looking for the package.xml file.
install_html
If set to '0' don't generate and install the HTML version
+of the
documentation for the modules installed. This makes instal
+lation
considerably faster.
gui.*
Various settings for the graphical user interface.
ppm config list
List all configuration options currently set.