diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index 0296c42..843e96d 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -5648,9 +5648,9 @@ Disable extended attributes support.  This is the default.
 Attribute names are strings prefixed by a @dfn{namespace} name and a dot.
 Currently, four namespaces exist: @samp{user}, @samp{trusted},
 @samp{security} and @samp{system}.  By default, when @option{--xattr}
-is used, all names are stored in the archive (or extracted, if using
-@option{--extract}).  This can be controlled using the following
-options:
+is used, all names are stored in the archive. However, when using
+@option{--extract} only @samp{user} is extracted by default).  This can
+be controlled using the following options:
 
 @table @option
 @item --xattrs-exclude=@var{pattern}