Possible typo on doc/handbook/ports-using.html ?
Jason Helfman
bsd-src at helfman.org
Tue Feb 11 04:54:57 UTC 2014
> On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Lampros Chaidas <lamproschaidas at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I was just reading through the documentation for getting the ports collection with the subversion method and noticed the following in "Procedure 5.2. Subversion Method" - the link is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
>
> "If the ports tree is not available, Subversion can be installed as a package:
> # pkg install subversion
> If pkgng is being used to manage packages, Subversion can be installed with it instead:
> # pkg install subversion"
>
> It looks like it's the same command in both situations - this looks redundant to me, is there a difference here that maybe I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> - Lampros
Both statements are true, however I believe this can be reworded and condensed.
I'll put together a patch.
- jgh
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