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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/installing.xml b/docs/users_guide/installing.xml
index 09ce12d..dc0251a 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/installing.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/installing.xml
@@ -84,93 +84,23 @@ bundle and typing ./configure. That should convert
-To install a package, you'll have to do the following:
+The configure script takes a number of flags. The most
+commonly used is the
+--prefix=/path/to/install/in
+flag, which tells the bundle that you want it to be installed in
+/path/to/install/in rather than the default
+location (/usr/local).
+To see all the flags that configure accepts, run
+configure --help.
-
-
-
-
-
- Edit the Makefile and check the settings of the following variables:
-
-directories, installation
-installation directories
-
-
-
-
-platform
-
-
-the platform you are going to install for.
-
-
-
-bindir
-
-
-the directory in which to install user-invokable
-binaries.
-
-
-
-libdir
-
-
-the directory in which to install
-platform-dependent support files.
-
-
-
-datadir
-
-
-the directory in which to install
-platform-independent support files.
-
-
-
-infodir
-
-
-the directory in which to install Emacs info
-files.
-
-
-
-htmldir
-
-
-the directory in which to install HTML
-documentation.
-
-
-
-dvidir
-
-
-the directory in which to install DVI
-documentation.
-
-
-
-
-The values for these variables can be set through invocation of the
-configureconfigure
-script that comes with the distribution, but doing an optical diff to
-see if the values match your expectations is always a Good Idea.
+To install a package, you'll have to do the following:
-Instead of running configure, it is
-perfectly OK to copy Makefile.in to
-Makefile and set all these variables directly
-yourself. But do it right!
-
-
+