INSTALL: Note the advantages of Xapian 1.0.18+ and 1.1.4+

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@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ which are each described below:
 
        Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
 
-       After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command
-       named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At
-       least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config
-       program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ).
+       Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
+       Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
+       1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
+       when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
+       reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
+       the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
 
        GMime 2.4
        ---------
@@ -68,16 +70,19 @@ which are each described below:
 
        Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
 
-On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
-install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
-line:
+On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
+dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
+
+  For Debian and similar:
 
         sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
 
-On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
-the package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of
-"dev").
+  For Fedora and similar:
 
+       sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+
+On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
+the package names may be different.