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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 09:12:02 UTC
The branch main has been updated by carlavilla:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=18edf87bc3e7d2281494f8363082cb2fd8687092
commit 18edf87bc3e7d2281494f8363082cb2fd8687092
Author: Fikret H. Güngör <855309@protonmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2025-07-26 09:10:47 +0000
Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-07-26 09:10:47 +0000
Handbook - Ports: Fix missing space after period
Reviewed by: carlavilla@, Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/522
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documentation/content/en/books/handbook/ports/_index.adoc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/ports/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/ports/_index.adoc
index f1e1a2e0d3..ac4cf4ce70 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/ports/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/ports/_index.adoc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Select the technology that meets your requirements for installing a particular a
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In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application with different settings. For example, NGINX(R) is available as a `nginx` package and a `nginx-lite` package, the former has many more options enabled, but this in turn requires many things to be installed as dependencies for it to work, thus increasing space consumption and attack surface.
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-The transitive dependencies can grow quite large, for example the full `nginx` package will pull in several X libraries which can be quite surprising, so building from ports allow you to choose only the options you need without a "kitchen sink" approach.In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application to specify certain settings.
+The transitive dependencies can grow quite large, for example the full `nginx` package will pull in several X libraries which can be quite surprising, so building from ports allow you to choose only the options you need without a "kitchen sink" approach. In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application to specify certain settings.
* The licensing conditions of some software forbid binary distribution. Such software must be distributed as source code which must be compiled by the end-user.
* Some people do not trust binary distributions or prefer to read through source code in order to look for potential problems.
* Source code is needed in order to apply custom patches.