From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 11 18:22:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D70F37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@openirc.co.uk) Received: from [213.122.75.145] (helo=host213-122-75-145.btinternet.com) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #83) id 159ctC-0000QQ-00; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:22:39 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:22:19 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay X-Sender: birminghamweb@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk To: dannyman Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porter's Handbook ambiguity In-Reply-To: <20010611180149.A96271@toldme.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Perhaps this section ought to be reworded. Something like: "Please use >the portlint port (devel/portlint) to see if your port conforms to our >guidelines. What a splendid idea. Maybe someone should go through the entirety of FreeBSD documentation and replace all instances of ' is in the ports collection' to 'You can install from the ports collection at /usr/ports/bar/. This can be done by typing 'cd /usr/bar/; make install' as the superuser.' Any takers for this exciting and worthwhile project? >"Part of the ports collection" is easily misinterpreted, or at least it >was in my case. I'm not sure I can possibly comment on that. My brain is creating a few relevant words but somehow forming them into a sentence not involving something which could be construed as 'insulting' is just not happening. >Should I send-pr something? I'd recommend developing clue and/or reading section 4 of the handbook first. You *could* send-pr but I suspect that would simply create a competition between committers as to who could close it first and who could provide the most amusing close comment. -- /*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\ | Andrew McKay | Birmingham, England | | | OpenIRC Network Admin | \*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message