-In addition to the system wide packages, each user can have his own
-packages installed under "~/.sxemacs/". If you want to install packages
-there using the interactive tools, you need to set
-'package-get-install-to-user-init-directory' to 't'
+In addition to the system wide packages, each user can have their own
+packages installed under ${HOME}. The default location is:
+${XDG_DATA_HOME}/sxemacs, which is normally ~/.local/share/sxemacs,
+and is what SXEmacs will use if ${XDG_DATA_HOME} is not set.
+
+Alternatively, these packages can be installed under ~/.sxemacs if
+that is where you have set your `user-init-diretory' to.
+
+If you want to install packages into your ${HOME} using the interactive
+tools, you need to set 'package-get-install-to-user-directory' to 't'