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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