diff --git a/lib/App/cpanminus/script.pm b/lib/App/cpanminus/script.pm
index 4c82338a0..3ee3f78c8 100644
--- a/lib/App/cpanminus/script.pm
+++ b/lib/App/cpanminus/script.pm
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ sub new {
         argv => [],
         local_lib => undef,
         self_contained => undef,
+        exclude_vendor => undef,
         prompt_timeout => 0,
         prompt => undef,
         configure_timeout => 60,
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ sub parse_options {
             $self->{pod2man} = undef;
         },
         'self-contained!' => \$self->{self_contained},
+        'exclude-vendor!' => \$self->{exclude_vendor},
         'mirror=s@' => $self->{mirrors},
         'mirror-only!' => \$self->{mirror_only},
         'mirror-index=s' => \$self->{mirror_index},
@@ -339,7 +341,6 @@ sub _doit {
             my ($volume, $dirs, $file) = File::Spec->splitpath($module);
             $module = join '::', grep { $_ } File::Spec->splitdir($dirs), $file;
         }
-
         ($module, my $version) = $self->parse_module_args($module);
 
         $self->chdir($cwd);
@@ -785,8 +786,8 @@ sub show_version {
 
     print "  \%Config:\n";
     for my $key (qw( archname installsitelib installsitebin installman1dir installman3dir
-                     sitelibexp archlibexp privlibexp )) {
-        print "    $key=$Config{$key}\n";
+                     sitearchexp sitelibexp vendorarch vendorlibexp archlibexp privlibexp )) {
+        print "    $key=$Config{$key}\n" if $Config{$key};
     }
 
     print "  \%ENV:\n";
@@ -939,9 +940,10 @@ sub _core_only_inc {
     my($self, $base) = @_;
     require local::lib;
     (
-        local::lib->resolve_path(local::lib->install_base_perl_path($base)),
         local::lib->resolve_path(local::lib->install_base_arch_path($base)),
-        @Config{qw(privlibexp archlibexp)},
+        local::lib->resolve_path(local::lib->install_base_perl_path($base)),
+        (!$self->{exclude_vendor} ? grep {$_} @Config{qw(vendorarch vendorlibexp)} : ()),
+        @Config{qw(archlibexp privlibexp)},
     );
 }
 
@@ -1981,7 +1983,11 @@ sub loaded_from_perl_lib {
     my($self, $meta) = @_;
 
     require Config;
-    for my $dir (qw(archlibexp privlibexp)) {
+    my @dirs = qw(archlibexp privlibexp);
+    if ($self->{self_contained} && ! $self->{exclude_vendor} && $Config{vendorarch}) {
+        unshift @dirs, qw(vendorarch vendorlibexp);
+    }
+    for my $dir (@dirs) {
         my $confdir = $Config{$dir};
         if ($confdir eq substr($meta->filename, 0, length($confdir))) {
             return 1;
diff --git a/script/cpanm.PL b/script/cpanm.PL
index 1cbbc9028..c452f5377 100755
--- a/script/cpanm.PL
+++ b/script/cpanm.PL
@@ -193,9 +193,11 @@ directory C<extlib>, which can be loaded from your application with:
 
   use local::lib '/path/to/extlib';
 
-Note that this option does B<NOT> reliably work with perl
-installations supplied by operating system vendors that strips
-standard modules from perl, such as RHEL, Fedora and CentOS.
+Note that this option does B<NOT> reliably work with perl installations
+supplied by operating system vendors that strips standard modules from perl,
+such as RHEL, Fedora and CentOS, B<UNLESS> you also install packages supplying
+all the modules that have been stripped.  For these systems you will probably
+want to install the C<perl-core> meta-package which does just that.
 
 =item --self-contained
 
@@ -203,6 +205,12 @@ When examining the dependencies, assume no non-core modules are
 installed on the system. Handy if you want to bundle application
 dependencies in one directory so you can distribute to other machines.
 
+=item --exclude-vendor
+
+Don't include modules installed under the 'vendor' paths when searching for
+core modules when the C<--self-contained> flag is in effect.  This restores
+the behaviour from before version 1.7023
+
 =item --mirror
 
 Specifies the base URL for the CPAN mirror to use, such as
diff --git a/xt/exclude-vendor.t b/xt/exclude-vendor.t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71b881923
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xt/exclude-vendor.t
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+use xt::Run;
+use Test::More;
+
+# If ExtUtils::MakeMaker is installed under vendor path and not a core path,
+# then --exclude-vendor will fail
+
+use Config;
+use Module::Metadata;
+my $vendor_path = $Config{vendorlibexp};
+my $core_path   = $Config{privlibexp};
+
+my $core_mod = 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker';
+
+my $core_in_vendor = 0;
+if ( Module::Metadata->new_from_module( $core_mod, inc => [$vendor_path] ) ) {
+    $core_in_vendor = 1;
+}
+if ( Module::Metadata->new_from_module( $core_mod, inc => [$core_path] ) ) {
+    $core_in_vendor = 0;
+}
+
+SKIP: {
+    skip 'Core modules not moved to vendor on this system' unless $core_in_vendor;
+
+    # Something with some core dependencies
+    run_L( "--exclude-vendor", "URI::Find" );
+
+    like last_build_log, qr{Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker'};
+}
+
+done_testing;