-** WARNING **
-
-1- if you are installing in /usr/local or / (root) the use of
-
- --sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/privoxy
-
-is recommended for a safer (there may already exist other program that uses a
-file with the "config" name) and cleaner and easier to use etc dir
-
-2- for user install dont forget to give the --with-user and --with-group equal
-to the current user or tune things later
-
-** END OF WARNING **
+WARNING: If installing as root, the install will fail unless another user is
+specified. configure accepts --with-user and --with-group options for setting
+user and group ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable
+by the daemon). The specified user must already exist. Or if there is already a
+privoxy user on the system, and no user was specified during configure, make
+install then will use the privoxy user. When starting Privoxy, it should be run
+as this same user.
+
+The default installation path for make install is /usr/local. This may of
+course be customized with the various ./configure path options.
+
+If you do install to /usr/local, the install will use sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/
+privoxy by default. All other destinations, and the direct usage of
+--sysconfdir flag behave like normal, i.e. will not add the extra privoxy
+directory. This is for a safer install, as there may already exist another
+program that uses a file with the "config" name, and thus makes /usr/local/etc
+cleaner.
+
+If installing to /usr/local, the docs will go by default to $prefix/share/doc.
+But if this directory doesn't exist, it will then try $prefix/doc and install
+there before creating a new $prefix/share/doc just for Privoxy.
+
+Again, if the installs goes to /usr/local, the localstatedir (ie: var/) will
+default to /var instead of $prefix/var so the logs will go to /var/log/privoxy
+/, and the pid file will be created in /var/run/privoxy.pid.
+
+make install will attempt to set the correct values in config (main
+configuration file). You may want to check this to make sure all values are
+correct. If appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to the
+user to determine how and where to start Privoxy.