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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2022-07-25 14:31:54 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2022-07-25 14:31:54 +0200
commitde2e0790291b6614e771bc4dc01926a5573bf8a3 (patch)
tree3a9fbe08f64cfe5257250b75850dbbea31cabfd2 /doc
parentaa8c9bd9854f7da8b08ab1bca211d53af0bd1ba1 (diff)
Proofreading changes in manual
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli
index 8d7dc59..7dac6b0 100644
--- a/doc/manual.cli
+++ b/doc/manual.cli
@@ -394,14 +394,14 @@ may need to negotiate a configuration among several dependents of a package
which requires it to know this package's configuration variable types and
default values.
-To solve this chicken and egg of a problem, \c{bpkg} includes a minimal subset
-of the build system files along with the package's standard metadata (name,
-version, etc) into the repository metadata (\l{#manifest-package-list-pkg
-\c{packages.manifest}}). This subset is called the package build system
-skeleton, or just package skeleton for short, and includes the
-\c{build/bootstrap.build} and \c{build/root.build} files (or their alternative
-naming scheme variants) as well as any files that may be sources by
-\c{root.build}.
+To solve this chicken and egg kind of problem, \c{bpkg} includes a minimal
+subset of the build system files along with the package's standard metadata
+(name, version, etc) into the repository metadata
+(\l{#manifest-package-list-pkg \c{packages.manifest}}). This subset is called
+the package build system skeleton, or just package skeleton for short, and
+includes the \c{build/bootstrap.build} and \c{build/root.build} files (or
+their alternative naming scheme variants) as well as any files that may be
+sources by \c{root.build}.
The inclusion of \c{build/bootstrap.build} and \c{build/root.build} (if
present) as well as any \c{build/config/*.build} (or their alternative naming
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ Inside these buildfiles the skeleton load can be distinguished from normal
load by examining the \c{build.mode} variable, which is set to \c{skeleton}
during the skeleton load. In particular, this variable must be used to omit
loading of build system modules that are neither built-in nor standard
-pre-installed and which are therefore listed as a package dependencies. Such
+pre-installed and which are therefore listed as package dependencies. Such
modules are not yet available during the skeleton load. For example:
\
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ libfoo ^1.0.0
The configuration negotiation algorithm can be summarized as cooperative
refinement. Specifically, whenever a \c{prefer} clause of a dependent changes
-any configuration value, all other dependent's \c{prefer} clauses are
+any configuration value, all other dependents' \c{prefer} clauses are
re-evaluated. This process continues until there are no more changes
(success), one of the \c{accept} clauses returned \c{false} (failure), or the
process starts \"yo-yo'ing\" between two or more configurations (failure).
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ $ bpkg build libhello ?libmariadb
\N|While \c{bpkg}'s refusal to automatically pick an alternative that would
require building a new package may at first seem unfriendly to the user,
practical experience shows that such extra user-friendliness would rarely
-justifies the potential confusion that it may cause.
+justify the potential confusion that it may cause.
Also note that it's not only the user that can pick a certain alternative but
also a dependent package. Continue with the above example, if we had \c{hello}
@@ -1917,7 +1917,7 @@ context expression that should evaluate to \c{true} or \c{false}, similar to
\c{enable}.
Given the \c{require} and \c{prefer}/\c{accept} clauses of all the dependents
-of a particular dependency, \c{bpkg} tries to negotiates a configuration
+of a particular dependency, \c{bpkg} tries to negotiate a configuration
acceptable to all of them as described in \l{#dep-config-negotiation
Dependency Configuration Negotiation}.
@@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ dependent's configuration variables.
<reflect-var> = <config-var> '=' <value>
\
-The package requirements (other than other packages). Such requirements are
+The package requirements other than other packages. Such requirements are
normally checked in an ad hoc way during package configuration by its
\c{buildfiles} and the primary purpose of capturing them in the manifest is
for documentation. However, there are some special requirements that are