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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports
> tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1)
> designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng.

My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are 
not supported.  We really need this.  A maintainer should be concerned 
with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at 
the cost of clarity.  The user should not have to interpret short or 
cut-off option descriptions.