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documentation/3633: Section 8.6 of the FAQ seems to confuse ports with packages
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- Subject: documentation/3633: Section 8.6 of the FAQ seems to confuse ports with packages
- From: decho@pal3.org
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:24:49 -0500 (EST)
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>Number: 3633
>Category: documentation
>Synopsis: Section 8.6 of the FAQ seems to confuse ports with packages
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 10 21:40:01 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Asenchi
>Release: 3.4-current
>Organization:
net
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 3.4
Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
Machine : i386
>Description:
In Section 8.6 of the FAQ, it seems as ports and packages are confused.
Reading the second sentence in that section will help understand:
The OpenBSD ports team considers packages to be the goal of their
porting work, not the ports themselves.
It goes on to say, "for most people and most applications, using
packages is far easier, and is the recommended way of..."
>How-To-Repeat:
READ SECTION 8.6 of FAQ
>Fix:
I think the idea of ports and packages is confused. Maybe a complete
rewrite of that section maybe necessary, to clean up the language a bit
better.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: