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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ Issues of note:
        export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
 
  - By default (unless NO_PERL is provided) Git will ship various perl
-   scripts & libraries it needs. However, for simplicity it doesn't
-   use the ExtUtils::MakeMaker toolchain to decide where to place the
-   perl libraries. Depending on the system this can result in the perl
+   scripts. However, for simplicity it doesn't use the
+   ExtUtils::MakeMaker toolchain to decide where to place the perl
+   libraries. Depending on the system this can result in the perl
    libraries not being where you'd like them if they're expected to be
    used by things other than Git itself.
 
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ Issues of note:
    Will result in e.g. perllibdir=/usr/share/perl/5.26.1 on Debian,
    perllibdir=/usr/share/perl5 (which we'd use by default) on CentOS.
 
+ - Unless NO_PERL is provided Git will ship various perl libraries it
+   needs. Distributors of Git will usually want to set
+   NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS if NO_PERL is not provided to use their own
+   copies of the CPAN modules Git needs.
+
  - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
    programs and libraries.  Git can be used without most of them by adding
    the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
@@ -121,7 +126,8 @@ Issues of note:
          Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
          core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
          so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
-         itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
+         itself, e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Spec, File::Temp, Net::Domain,
+         Net::SMTP, and Time::HiRes.
 
        - git-imap-send needs the OpenSSL library to talk IMAP over SSL if
          you are using libcurl older than 7.34.0.  Otherwise you can use