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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:47:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        will@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/20788: ports make machinery lacks `make help`
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008230343180.97493-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <200008230142.SAA00590@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 will@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-Why: 
> We have a manpage, ports(7), for this purpose.

Ah, that one's nice indeed! :-)

But, why don't we just refer to this manpage if the user enters
`make help`?

 example% make help
 Please refer to the ports man page (man ports).
 example%

Gerald

PS: FreeBSD is nice if you know how to use it, but sometimes it's just a
bit harder than necessary to find out *how* to do so. :-/
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/



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