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</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="define-pola">
<para>What does <acronym>POLA</acronym> mean?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Principle of Least Astonishment. It means that as
FreeBSD evolves, changes visible to the user should be
kept as unsurprising as possible. For example,
arbitrarily rearranging system startup variables in
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> violates POLA.
Developers consider POLA when contemplating user-visible
system changes.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="define-repocopy">
<para>What is a repo-copy?</para>