On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:54:49PM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Lampros Chaidas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I was just reading through the documentation for getting the ports 
> > collection with the subversion method and noticed the following in 
> > "Procedure 5.2. Subversion Method" - the link is 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
> > 
> > "If the ports tree is not available,      Subversion can be installed as    
> >   a package:
> > # pkg install subversion
> > If pkgng is being used to      manage packages, Subversion can      be 
> > installed with it instead:
> > # pkg install subversion"
> > 
> > It looks like it's the same command in both situations - this looks 
> > redundant to me, is there a difference here that maybe I'm missing? 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > - Lampros
> 
> Both statements are true, however I believe this can be reworded and 
> condensed. 
> 
> I'll put together a patch.

  That was introduced in [1] as an attempt to clear texts from mentioning
our old package management system (aka pkg_install).
 
1. 
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml?r1=43693&r2=43747
-- 
  WBR, Taras Korenko
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