From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 17 23:55:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0A916A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:55:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D1643D5C for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:55:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CfRwN-000GoO-7R; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:55:19 +0000 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:55:17 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Kevin Kinsey Message-ID: <20041217235517.GN38136@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Kevin Kinsey , Matt Storer , doc@freebsd.org References: <99ee2ecf04121713343b67dca5@mail.gmail.com> <41C3581B.2050403@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b6+Jx0QtehpXLScj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C3581B.2050403@daleco.biz> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Matt Storer cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: typo? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:55:23 -0000 --b6+Jx0QtehpXLScj Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="vrIGRKnBmQs2THAk" Content-Disposition: inline --vrIGRKnBmQs2THAk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:05:15PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Matt Storer wrote: >=20 > >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.h= tml) > > > >"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." >=20 > Yeah, it does it on purpose ;-) >=20 > I work with the doc team on occasion. If you wish, > feel free to patch it and attach it to a PR. No need, I have made it disappear. Other parts of the surrounding text were suboptimal too, so I've committed the attached patch. Thanks to Matt and Kevin. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --vrIGRKnBmQs2THAk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ports.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Index: ports/chapter.sgml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.230 diff -u -r1.230 chapter.sgml --- ports/chapter.sgml 10 Dec 2004 07:11:23 -0000 1.230 +++ ports/chapter.sgml 17 Dec 2004 23:50:28 -0000 @@ -1097,17 +1097,17 @@ ports disk-space - Using the ports collection can defiantly eat up your disk - space. For this reason you should always remember to clean up - the work directories using the make - clean option. This will remove - the work directory after a port has been - built, and installed. You can also remove the tar files from - the distfiles directory, and remove the - installed ports when their use has delimited. + Using the ports collection will use up disk + space over time. For this reason you should always remember to clean up + the temporary work directories u= sing the make + clean command. This will remove + the work directory after a port = has been + built and installed. You can also remove the source distribution files f= rom + the distfiles directory, and rem= ove the + installed ports if the need for them has passed. =20 - Some users choose to limit the port categories by placing an e= ntry - in the refuse file. This way when they run the + Some users choose to limit the available port categories by pl= acing an entry + in the refuse file. This way, when they run the CVSup application, it will not download the files in that category. More information regarding the refuse file can be found in