diff -ur a/postgresql-server-8.4.2.ebuild b/postgresql-server-8.4.2.ebuild
--- a/postgresql-server-8.4.2.ebuild	2009-12-14 13:57:33.000000000 -0500
+++ b/postgresql-server-8.4.2.ebuild	2009-12-14 21:25:18.282874410 -0500
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@
 	elog "emerge --config =${CATEGORY}/${PF}"
 	elog
 	elog "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
-	elog "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1."
-	elog "You can enable it in the clusters postgresql.conf."
+	elog "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1 and starting with 8.4 is now"
+	elog "enabled by default. You can disable it in the cluster's postgresql.conf."
 }
 
 pkg_postrm() {