diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index c66ca44124dd..15876c984d4f 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.270 2016/04/18 18:58:04 christos Exp $
+$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.271 2016/04/18 19:37:41 christos Exp $
 
 This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent
 changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ Recent changes:
 
 20160418:
 	libedit needs manual removal of all autogenerated files since
-	some of them are not autogenerated anymore.
+	some of them are not autogenerated anymore. Remember that there
+	might be two copies of libedit if your platform builds "compat".
 
 20160410:
 	amd64 needs full "make cleandir" or deletion of objdir now that