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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index cadd3cec..e51b397c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,16 +18,6 @@ will call configure for you). See this command:
 for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
 configure stage.
 
-notmuch.el installation
------------------------
-Installing the notmuch.el emacs lisp function systemwide:
-
-	sudo make install-emacs
-
-Each user needs to add (require 'notmuch) in his ~/.emacs to make it
-available and then start emacs running notmuch with "emacs -f notmuch"
-or start notmuch from within emacs with "M-x notmuch".
-
 Dependencies
 ------------
 Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
@@ -42,10 +32,12 @@ 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 +60,19 @@ 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.