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@@ -254,3 +254,7 @@ those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source.
 However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without
 (seemingly too much) complaint.  How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what
 precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]]
+
+> I don't remember what was the specific problem with perl 5.8.8. All I can
+> find is some taint checking bugs, which are currently worked around by
+> taint checking being disabled. --[[Joey]]