From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 30 12:08:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C5A1EC for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:08:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdml@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A089C1 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.31.9.165] (unknown [213.225.137.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096C943B4A for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:08:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51A7413D.9010104@marino.st> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:08:29 +0200 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing References: <20130530132742.43455bba@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <20130530132742.43455bba@bsd64.grem.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:08:32 -0000 On 5/30/2013 13:27, Michael Gmelin wrote: > I assume there are better ways to make this clear. It might even > make sense to have a basic distinction on the ports system level - > options that provide additional features vs. options that > change the (default) behavior of the port. Isn't this implicit in the option default selection? In other words, the fact that it's pre-selected indicates the default behavior of the port, right? Even in the case of a dialog showing where it didn't before isn't a logical reason to think pre-selected options are changes in default behavior, at least not to me. John