diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 86d0d1bb9..e8e2dde51 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -187,21 +187,12 @@ documentation slots are not yet used.
 
 It is now possible to extend the functionality of some Guile
 primitives by letting them defer a call to a GOOPS generic function on
-argument mismatch.  This functionality is enabled with the GOOPS
-primitive
-
-  enable-primitive-generic! PRIMITIVE ...
-
-[This primitive will disappear again in Guile-1.4 when all primitives
- will be primitive generics.]
-
-It is then possible to extend the primitive(s) by defining methods for
-them without loss of efficiency in normal evaluation.
+argument mismatch.  This menas that there is no loss of efficiency in
+normal evaluation.
 
 Example:
 
-  (use-modules (oop goops))
-  (enable-primitive-generic! +)
+  (use-modules (oop goops)) ; Must be GOOPS version 0.2.
   (define-method + ((x <string>) (y <string>))
     (string-append x y))
 
@@ -209,7 +200,8 @@ Example:
 can also be used for concatenating strings.
 
 Who will be the first one to extend Guile's numerical tower to
-rationals?  :)
+rationals?  :)  [OK, there a few other things to fix before this can
+be made in a clean way.]
 
 *** New snarf macros for defining primitives: SCM_GPROC, SCM_GPROC1