diff --git a/office/texlive/README b/office/texlive/README
index 31e55c7780..fd1519b506 100644
--- a/office/texlive/README
+++ b/office/texlive/README
@@ -11,4 +11,7 @@ alternate location for TMP and OUTPUT if you have small /tmp partition.
 
 Note that this package is intended to completely replace (and then some) the
 tetex packages in Slackware, so you'll need to remove tetex and tetex-doc
-before installing TeXLive (but NOT before BUILDING it).
+before installing TeXLive (but NOT before BUILDING it).  For the sake of
+clarity, this means that you must have the tetex package installed when
+you build texlive the first time; after that, the texlive package that's
+already installed is sufficient.