Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 01:03:48 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Sideris Michael <msid@daemons.gr> Cc: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions Message-ID: <20060508230348.GA21755@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060508215606.GA85083@daemons.gr> References: <20060508205703.GA11215@daemons.gr> <200605082120.k48LKxSi006193@peedub.jennejohn.org> <20060508213035.GA73976@daemons.gr> <20060508214319.GA21378@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20060508214643.GA86735@daemons.gr> <20060508215344.GA15014@just.puresimplicity.net> <20060508215606.GA85083@daemons.gr>
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:56:06AM +0300, Sideris Michael wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 04:53:44PM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:46:43AM +0300, Sideris Michael wrote: > > > Oh, come on now. Each Option has a description next to it. Let's be reasonable. > > > > Often times a very terse description that occasionally requires digging > > through the Makefile to actually see what's going on. > > Let there be very very very few cases like that. Unfortunately there are quite a few cases like that. There just is not enough space in the OPTIONS screen to explain the details of what a given option do. In many cases it is fairly obvious what a given option will do, but in many cases it is far from obvious. > In the worst case, you will have > to dig a bit. But that doesn't compare with the general good the conversion would do. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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