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On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 15:57:09 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
>What's really needed are better tools to help maintainers see what
>their ports are installing, and for them to exercise more disciple in
>asking "Is this really necessary, or should I make it optional? Is it
>really a run dependency, or is it only needed for the build?"  (*)

s/disciple/discipline

I need to exercise more proofreading discipline. :)