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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-08 22:40:40 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-06-08 22:40:40 +0000
commit493d6b55bd4a2bd8893eaf25e912d1cee2de6c9a (patch)
treece34f8661578600c08044fef26037d64f02b3bce /prologue/why.xml
parent192c66815afe99f23e7f6e1e9967d865d038801b (diff)
Text updates in preface for cross2
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/cross2@11908 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml
index 4b1b263e1..ca100e1f9 100644
--- a/prologue/why.xml
+++ b/prologue/why.xml
@@ -118,8 +118,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>DejaGNU</para>
- <para>This package contains a framework for testing other programs.
- It is only installed in the temporary toolchain.</para>
+ <para>This package contains a framework for testing other programs.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -141,8 +140,9 @@
<listitem revision="sysv">
<para>Eudev</para>
- <para>This package is a device manager. It dynamically controls the entries
- in the /dev directory as devices are added or removed from the system.
+ <para>This package is a device manager. It dynamically controls the ownership,
+ permissions, names, and symbolic links of devices in the /dev directory as
+ devices are added or removed from the system.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
<para>File</para>
<para>This package contains a utility for determining the type of a
- given file or files. A few packages need it to build.</para>
+ given file or files. A few packages need it in their build scripts.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Glibc</para>
- <para>This package contains the main C library. Linux programs would
+ <para>This package contains the main C library. Linux programs will
not run without it.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Pkg-config</para>
- <para>This package provides a program to return meta-data about an
+ <para>This package provides a program that returns meta-data about an
installed library or package.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -558,8 +558,7 @@
<para>Tcl</para>
<para>This package contains the Tool Command Language used
- in many test suites in LFS packages. It is only installed in
- the temporary toolchain.</para>
+ in many test suites in LFS packages.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>