diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 883839c5e..90991cfb9 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Removed
+the FHS compliance notes. They are bogus because Vim doesn't use the
+localstatedir at all.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's
 grammatic-fixes patch. Changed "$LFS" to "LFS" when speaking of the LFS
 environment variable.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/vim-inst.xml b/chapter06/vim-inst.xml
index 31fc04fad..400d8446c 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim-inst.xml
@@ -26,19 +26,3 @@ documentation.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
-<sect2>
-<title>FHS compliance notes</title>
-
-<para>The FHS says that editors like vim should use /var/lib/&lt;editor&gt; 
-for their temporary state files, like temporary save files for example. 
-If you wish vim to conform to the FHS, you should use this command set 
-instead of the one presented above:</para>
-
-<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../vim-&vim-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
-./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/vim &amp;&amp;
-make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\" &amp;&amp;
-make install &amp;&amp;
-ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen></para>
-
-</sect2>
-