typo?

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Fri Dec 17 23:55:23 UTC 2004


On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:05:15PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Matt Storer wrote:
> 
> >Hey -
> >
> >I found what I'm pretty sure is a typo in the FreeBSD handbook.
> >
> >>From Section 4.5.4 "Ports and Disk Space":
> >(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html)
> >
> >"Using the ports collection can defiantly eat up your disk space."  Do
> >ports really eat up your disk space in a defiant manner?  What is it
> >exactly that they're defying?  I think perhaps the spell-checker
> >missed it because it's a real word, but it should have been
> >"definitely."
> 
> Yeah, it does it on purpose ;-)
> 
> I work with the doc team on occasion.  If you wish,
> feel free to patch it and attach it to a PR.

No need, I have made it disappear.  Other parts of the surrounding text
were suboptimal too, so I've committed the attached patch.  Thanks to
Matt and Kevin.

Ceri
-- 
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         <primary>ports</primary>
         <secondary>disk-space</secondary>
       </indexterm>
-      <para>Using the ports collection can defiantly eat up your disk
-	space.  For this reason you should always remember to clean up
-	the work directories using the <command>make
-	<makevar>clean</makevar></command> option.  This will remove
-	the <filename>work</filename> directory after a port has been
-	built, and installed.  You can also remove the tar files from
-	the <filename>distfiles</filename> directory, and remove the
-	installed ports when their use has delimited.</para>
+      <para>Using the ports collection will use up disk
+	space over time.  For this reason you should always remember to clean up
+	the temporary <filename class="directory">work</filename> directories using the <command>make
+	<makevar>clean</makevar></command> command.  This will remove
+	the <filename class="directory">work</filename> directory after a port has been
+	built and installed.  You can also remove the source distribution files from
+	the <filename class="directory">distfiles</filename> directory, and remove the
+	installed ports if the need for them has passed.</para>
 
-      <para>Some users choose to limit the port categories by placing an entry
-	in the <filename>refuse</filename> file.  This way when they run the
+      <para>Some users choose to limit the available port categories by placing an entry
+	in the <filename>refuse</filename> file.  This way, when they run the
 	<application>CVSup</application> application, it will not download the
 	files in that category.  More information regarding the
 	<filename>refuse</filename> file can be found in <xref
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