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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:20:08 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports
Message-ID:  <20130317152007.GE72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <5145DE2C.40302@executive-computing.de>
References:  <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303170846130.8399@wonkity.com> <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <5145DE2C.40302@executive-computing.de>

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 04:15:56PM +0100, Marco Steinbach wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 17.03.2013 16:11:
> > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into th=
e ports
> >>> tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement fo=
r dialog(1)
> >>> designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng.
> >> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are=
=20
> >> not supported.  We really need this.  A maintainer should be concerned=
=20
> >> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length a=
t=20
> >> the cost of clarity.  The user should not have to interpret short or=
=20
> >> cut-off option descriptions.
> >=20
> > pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worke=
d on for
> > a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this vers=
ion? I
> > think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested.
>=20
> I tried.  They get truncated, instead of overflowing and hosing the layou=
t.
>=20
> MfG CoCo
>=20

Ok thanks let's push this feature request for 0.2 then

regards,
Bapt

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