Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:22:19 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porter's Handbook ambiguity Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106120213040.19372-100000@fluoxetine.openirc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010611180149.A96271@toldme.com>
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>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 '<foo> is in the ports collection' to 'You can install <foo> from the ports collection at /usr/ports/bar/<foo>. This can be done by typing 'cd /usr/bar/<foo>; 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 | | <andy@openirc.co.uk> | OpenIRC Network Admin | \*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/*\*/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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