svn commit: r335074 - head/share/man/man7
    Edward Tomasz Napierala 
    trasz at FreeBSD.org
       
    Wed Jun 13 18:50:52 UTC 2018
    
    
  
Author: trasz
Date: Wed Jun 13 18:50:51 2018
New Revision: 335074
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335074
Log:
  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
Modified:
  head/share/man/man7/ports.7
Modified: head/share/man/man7/ports.7
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man7/ports.7	Wed Jun 13 18:34:49 2018	(r335073)
+++ head/share/man/man7/ports.7	Wed Jun 13 18:50:51 2018	(r335074)
@@ -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
    
    
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