diff --git a/appendices/dependencies.xml b/appendices/dependencies.xml
index 55c6110ff..ed44374ea 100644
--- a/appendices/dependencies.xml
+++ b/appendices/dependencies.xml
@@ -30,10 +30,7 @@
   in addition to those on the first list, need to be available in order to run
   the test suites. The fourth list of dependencies are packages that require
   this package to be built and installed in its final location before they are
-  built and installed. In most cases, this is because these packages will hard
-  code paths to binaries within their scripts. If not built in a certain order,
-  this could result in paths of /tools/bin/[binary] being placed inside scripts
-  installed to the final system. This is obviously not desirable.</para>
+  built and installed.</para>
 
   <para>The last list of dependencies are optional packages that are not
   addressed in LFS, but could be useful to the user. These packages may have
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 7180148ce..276cce4c2 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@
     <listitem revision="sysv"> or <listitem revision="systemd"> as
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
     -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2023-12-04</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[thomas] - Modify commands for install Python docs to avoid
+          too restrictive permissions on the files and dirs.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem revision='sysv'>
       <para>2023-12-01</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter08/python.xml b/chapter08/python.xml
index f7bc19d47..62279880d 100644
--- a/chapter08/python.xml
+++ b/chapter08/python.xml
@@ -155,21 +155,21 @@ EOF
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html
 
-tar --strip-components=1  \
-    --no-same-owner       \
-    --no-same-permissions \
-    -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html \
-    -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
+tar --no-same-owner \
+    -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2
+cp -R --no-preserve=mode python-&python-version;-docs-html/* \
+    /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the documentation install commands:</title>
 
     <varlistentry>
-      <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> and <option>--no-same-permissions</option></term>
+      <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> (tar) and <option>--no-preserve=mode</option> (cp)</term>
       <listitem>
         <para>Ensure the installed files have the correct ownership and
         permissions.  Without these options, <application>tar</application>
-        will install the package files with the upstream creator's values.
+        will install the package files with the upstream creator's values
+        and files would have restrictive permissions.
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>