diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
index b6eed5bd3d..0ce4535b61 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
@@ -4963,8 +4963,8 @@ PORTVERSION=	1.0</programlisting>
 	<para>Because <varname>WRKDIR</varname> is the only directory
 	  that is supposed to be writable during the build, and is
 	  used to store many files recording the status of the build,
-	  it is always better to force extraction into a subdirectory
-	  anyway.</para>
+	  the port's extraction will be forced into a
+	  subdirectory.</para>
       </note>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>