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Matthew Seaman wrote:

> There isn't one place you can go to see everything that might affect
> a particular port.  The port's Makefile is a good place to start,
> and most port Maintainers will document to a greater or lesser
> extent what tunables and so forth are available within the file,
> although it does help if you understand make(1) syntax.

<snip>

Wow! Now that's an email! Thanks a lot for all that info Matthew! Things 
make a lot more sense now. :)

Much appreacited!

Regards,
Rakhesh