diff --git a/general/genlib/libxml2.xml b/general/genlib/libxml2.xml
index cbd5459100..1476f83561 100644
--- a/general/genlib/libxml2.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/libxml2.xml
@@ -180,6 +180,20 @@ make</userinput></screen>
       <xref linkend="icu"/>, for better unicode support.
     </para>
 
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        If the <option>--with-icu</option> switch is used, it's recommended
+        to remove unneeded references to the ICU libraries to prevent many
+        packages using libxml2 from unnecessarily directly linked to the ICU
+        libraries, so you won't need to rebuild too many packages when you
+        upgrade ICU to a new major version.  After installing libxml2, as
+        the &root; user, issue:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>rm -vf /usr/lib/libxml2.la &amp;&amp;
+sed '/libs=/s/xml2.*/xml2"/' -i /usr/bin/xml2-config</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
+
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 role="content">