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Corrected a minor typo and removed a chunk of my "ports" entry

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which had mysteriously appeared at the end of the first section...
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<!-- $Id: policies.sgml,v 1.2 1996-07-03 04:23:26 mpp Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: policies.sgml,v 1.3 1996-07-22 00:00:36 jraynard Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<chapt><heading>Source Tree Guidelines and Policies
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ software, for tracking new versions, as appropriate.
<p>Changes to directories which have a maintainer defined shall be
sent to the
maintainer for review before being committed. Only if the maintainer does not respond
for un unacceptable period of time, to several emails, will it be
for an unacceptable period of time, to several emails, will it be
acceptable to commit changes without review by the maintainer.
However, it is suggested that you try and have the changes reviewed
by someone else if at all possible.
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unless they agree to assume this duty. On the other hand it doesn't
have to be a committer and it can easily be a group of people.
<p>Some software distributions have attacked this problem by
providing configuration scripts. Some of these are very clever, but
they have an unfortunate tendency to triumphantly announce that your
system is something you've never heard of and then ask you lots of
questions that sound like a final exam in system-level Unix
programming (``Does your system's gethitlist function return a const
pointer to a fromboz or a pointer to a const fromboz? Do you have
Foonix style unacceptable exception handling? And if not, why not?'').
<p>Fortunately, with the Ports collection, all the hard work involved
has already been done, and you can just type 'make install' and get a
working program.
<sect><heading>Contributed software</heading>
<p>June 1996.