diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 86df929d9..37e7a71d4 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't pass <quote>-default</quote> to
+Man's configure, since it's not needed anymore.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Shorten the <quote>sed</quote> used
 on Gzip's <filename>gzexe.in</filename> file.</para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml
index 58667a2ca..8f58f14e7 100644
--- a/chapter06/man.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man.xml
@@ -44,18 +44,11 @@ redundant results when using programs such as <command>whatis</command>:</para>
  
 <para>Now prepare Man for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure -default -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para><userinput>-default</userinput>: This tells the configure script
-to select a sensible set of default options. For example: only English man
-pages, no message catalogs, man not suid, handle compressed man pages, compress
-cat pages, create cat pages whenever the appropriate directory exists, follow
-FHS by putting cat pages under /var/cache/man (provided that directory
-exists).</para></listitem>
-
 <listitem><para><userinput>-confdir=/etc</userinput>: This tells the
 <command>man</command> program to look for the <filename>man.conf</filename>
 configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>