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diff --git a/devel/mprof/pkg-descr b/devel/mprof/pkg-descr
index 29dff8b558c8..93df37d7a786 100644
--- a/devel/mprof/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/mprof/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from the README:
 
 MPROF -- memory profiler (version 3.0)
 
@@ -12,86 +13,6 @@ mprof.man.
 Simply by linking in the new malloc and executing your application, a
 file called ``mprof.data'' will be created in the current directory.
 This is the data file that mprof uses to build its dynamic call graph.
-Call the program mprof with the following arguments:
-
-mprof [ options ] [ executable-file (a.out) ] [ data-file (mprof.data) ]
-
-The output contains four tables, the fields of which are described in
-the man page in mprof.man.  Further documentation is available in a
-paper which describes the implementation of mprof (published in the
-1988 summer USENIX conference) .  The LaTeX source of that paper is
-located in mprof.tex.  The printable DVI file is located in mprof.dvi.
-
-There are currently four makefiles, for the VAX, Sun-3, Sun-4, and
-MIPS (specifically, the Decstation 3100 and 5000).  To remake mprof,
-copy the appropriate file to `Makefile'.  If you need to recompile
-mprof for any reason, type ``make all'' in this directory.  To remove
-.o files, type ``make clean'' in this directory.  mprof has been
-tested on VAX (4.3 BSD and Ultrix using gcc and cc), SUN-3 (gcc and
-cc), Sun-4 (cc) computers, and Decstation 3100 (gcc and cc).  To test
-if mprof works in simple cases, type `make test'.
-
+[...]
 Mprof does not use Kyoto Common Lisp anymore.  To use mprof, all you
 need is a C compiler.
-
-The current incarnation of mprof does not handle calls to Sun calls to
-valloc or memalign correctly.  The calls will be profiled, but if your
-program calls valloc or memalign and tries to later free that memory,
-mprof will cause it to core dump.  On the VAX, memory allocated by
-valloc cannot be freed, and so valloc can be profiled correctly on the
-VAX.  A version of malloc.c is provided with mprof.  If this version
-is not compatible with the version used on your machine, you may need
-to replace this file.  If you have problems like this, please let me
-know so I can keep a record of the bugs encountered.
-
-My thanks to Stuart Sechrest, Fred Douglis, Dain Samples, John
-Ousterhout, Luigi Semenzato, Richard Tuck, Robert Scheifler, Mark
-Eichin, Pat Stephenson, and Steven Sargent for their interest and
-comments.
-
-My special thanks to Jeffrey Hsu who did the tricky port of mprof to
-the MIPS architecture.
-
-In the future (although the exact date is uncertain) I plan to make
-the following improvements to mprof:
-
-1.  Add code to detect duplicate frees.
-2.  Fix up the type determination code in mpfilt (see BUGS section in
-    the man page for mprof).
- 
-If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.
-
--Ben Zorn
- e-mail: zorn@boulder.colorado.edu
- phone:  303-492-4398
-
-
-Differences between version 2.0 and 2.1:
-
-1. In mpfilt.c, the variable stab_i was being incremented without
-checking for an overflow.  Overflow checks were added.
-
-2. A user discovered that a value of 5000 for ST_SIZE in mpfilt.c was
-too small.  Large programs may require a larger value for ST_SIZE.
-
-
-Differences between version 2.1 and 2.2:
-
-1. mprof now runs on the Decstation 3100 (a MIPS machine).
-
-2. A bug that prevented mprof from working in version 4.0 of the Sun
-operating system was fixed.
-
-
-Difference between version 2.2 and 3.0:
-
-1. All analysis is now done in C.
-
-2. The file mprof.c was renamed mprof_mon.c and the file mpfilt.c was
-renamed mprof.c.
-
-3. The old C-shell script ``mprof'' is not needed anymore.  The file
-analysis.lsp is also not needed.  It's functionality is now provided
-in the file mpgraph.c.
-
-4. Small bugs previously reported were fixed.