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        make install
       </pre>
       These steps compile, link and install the deal.II libraries. The
-      whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour.
+      whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour, depending
+      on your machine.
     </p>
 
     <p>
          sources and recompile things, then you can remove
          the <code>build/</code> directory after the last step.
 
+       <li> In principle, after installing <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, you
+         can remove the source directory as well (i.e., the directory into
+         which <code>tar</code> unpacked the file you downloaded) since
+         projects using deal.II should only need files that have been
+         installed. However, you will find it convenient to keep the source
+         files around anyway, for two reasons: (i) When
+         debugging you often end up with assertions for which you'd like to
+         see the place in the library's source files that triggered it. (ii)
+         You may want to use the tutorial programs located in the source
+         directory.
+
        <li> The <acronym>deal.II</acronym> <code>CMake</code> system can accept a
          significant number of configuration parameters. See the
          discussion <a href="#configuration-options">below</a>.

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