diff --git a/net/sdl2_net/Makefile b/net/sdl2_net/Makefile
index 48a5c2e880f4..76ae5dc25ad3 100644
--- a/net/sdl2_net/Makefile
+++ b/net/sdl2_net/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	sdl2_net
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	release-
 DISTVERSION=	2.4.0
 CATEGORIES=	net
 
 MAINTAINER=	amdmi3@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Small sample cross-platform networking library
+COMMENT=	Simple, cross-platform wrapper over TCP/IP sockets
 WWW=		https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_net
 
 LICENSE=	ZLIB
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 USES=		cmake sdl
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	libsdl-org
 GH_PROJECT=	SDL_net
 USE_SDL=	sdl2
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 CMAKE_OFF=	SDL2NET_SAMPLES
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DSDL2NET_DEBUG_POSTFIX:STRING=
 
 PLIST_SUB=	LIBVERSION=0.${DISTVERSION:R:E}00.${DISTVERSION:E}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/sdl2_net/pkg-descr b/net/sdl2_net/pkg-descr
index 126e9fc07baf..4d0e5e029848 100644
--- a/net/sdl2_net/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/sdl2_net/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-This is an example portable network library for use with SDL.
+This is a portable network library for use with SDL. It's goal is
+to simplify the use of the usual socket interfaces and use SDL to
+handle common portable functionality such as threading and reporting
+errors.