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 This is not a full paludis configuration. It contains only those parts that are
 necessary to set up a gentoo github mirror based sync system:
 * configures paludis to sync via https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git
-* updates metadata-cache (the first update might take long, all subsequent once not)
+* updates metadata-cache (the first update might take long, all subsequent ones not)
 * updates the dtd directory
 * updates the glsa directory
 * updates herds.xml