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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."
>
>Regards,
>
>Matt Storer
>  
>

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.

If that's something you're not comfortable with,
give me a holler back and I'll see what we can
do.

Kevin Kinsey