I'd like two changes in the following document:

4.5. What to do when a port does not work.

   Oh. You can do one of four (4) things :

    1. Fix it yourself. Technical details on how ports work can be found
       in Porting applications.
    2. Gripe. This is done by e-mail *ONLY*! Send such e-mail to the
       FreeBSD ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> and please
       include the name/version of the port, where you got both the port
       source & distfile(s) from, and what the text of the error was.
    3. Forget it. This is the easiest for most - very few of the programs
       in ports can be classified as 'essential'!
    4. Grab the pre-compiled package from a ftp server. The `master''
       package collection is on FreeBSD's FTP server in the packages

Fix: 

Shouldn't 2. rather refer to sending a problem report instead of
recommending to put this on the ports mailing list which was (last time I
checked it) busy with too many things that should have been taken to private
mail anyway? I guess bugs in ports are nothing a bunch of people needs to
talk about.

And 3. is imnsho a kick in the ass for the people spending time on porting
software. Even if you did consider the ports collection to be that
unimportant... 


Achim