Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:20:47 +0200 From: Taras Korenko <ds@ukrhub.net> To: Jason Helfman <bsd-src@helfman.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Possible typo on doc/handbook/ports-using.html ? Message-ID: <20140211072047.GA54201@gamma.ukrhub.net> In-Reply-To: <9F71B2D3-E4A6-439B-BFFC-242303A0DE12@helfman.org> References: <8D0F4110F6167E7-2378-15694@webmail-d224.sysops.aol.com> <9F71B2D3-E4A6-439B-BFFC-242303A0DE12@helfman.org>
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:54:49PM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Lampros Chaidas <lamproschaidas@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. That was introduced in [1] as an attempt to clear texts from mentioning our old package management system (aka pkg_install). 1. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml?r1=43693&r2=43747 -- WBR, Taras Korenko
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