From 86b83608d8a0a78bb5da787ada89407103d2fa6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Edward Tomasz Napierala Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:50:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that ports are used to build packages, this fact - obvious to the developers, but much less so to users - seems to be rather weakly documented. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL --- share/man/man7/ports.7 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/share/man/man7/ports.7 b/share/man/man7/ports.7 index dbe1fe8f2de..ebca20ff1c2 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/ports.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/ports.7 @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ The Ports Collection offers a simple way for users and administrators to install applications. +It is also used to build the packages, to be installed using +.Xr pkg 8 . Each .Em port contains any patches necessary to make the original