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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:53:57 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
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Subject:   [Bug 273341] Porter's handbook: a meta port should describe itself as such
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--- Comment #5 from Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa <fernape@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Graham Perrin =E2=97=90 from comment #4)

> The suggestion is intended to make things fairly easy, fairly obvious, for
> newcomers and for 'average' end users.=20

Why would a newcomer need to know that something is a metaport?
Don't you see a contradiction in that?
What value does it add?

When reading these two descriptions:

"The GNOME desktop environment"
vs
"Metaport for the GNOME desktop environment"

What value adds the second one?

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