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+## Notes ##
+
+*   We were updating this page vigorously until about 2:30 pm on Saturday 31
+January. Now it is relatively stable, but we'll tweak it as we learn more. We
+encourage you to try to get the software set up sooner rather than later, and
+those who do so first should let us know how things go---whether it's smoothly
+or not---so that we might possibly refine or expand the instructions for
+others. It'd be great if you took careful notes of what you did, step by step.
+If our instructions are broken or misleading or incomplete, and you figure out
+how to fix them on your own, it'd also be great if you can tell us what went
+wrong and exactly what you did to achieve joy.
+
+*   If you're using a Mac without the MacPorts package management system (on which
+see below), then I think we can customize these directions so that everything
+gets installed to your user directory, rather than to the system directories. This
+reduces the chances of anything getting messed up, and makes it easier to remove
+the software later. *Right now the instructions don't do this, but I'll be editing them
+over the next hour or so to make them do it.*
+ 
+ 
 ## Identifying your system ##
 
 We'll assume you're using either Mac OS X, or Windows, or Linux.
@@ -352,9 +372,6 @@ double-click and install.
     you a nice history of the commands you've already typed, which you can scroll up and down in with your
     keyboard arrows.
 
-**After using any of those methods**, if you managed to install OPAM along with OCaml, then open a Terminal and type this:
-
-    echo "will be posted shortly"
 
 
 ## Getting Haskell ##