diff --git a/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn b/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn
index b8b4f06e6..63fa2dcbd 100644
--- a/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/configurable_markdown_path.mdwn
@@ -57,3 +57,8 @@ So my patch doesn't make ikiwiki slow unless the user explicitly
 requests an extenral markdown, which they would presumably only do to
 work around bugs in their system's Perl implementation.
  -- [[wtk]]
+
+> I was wrong about it being enabled by default, but I still don't like
+> the idea of a configuration that makes ikiwiki slow on mdwn files,
+> even if it is a nonstandard configuration. How hard can it be to install
+> the Text::Markdown library? --[[Joey]]