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Date:      Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:08:23 +0200
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OPTIONS
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On 03/10/2010 11:45, David DEMELIER wrote:
> 2010/10/3 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>:
> I don't want something complex, checkbox, textbox, radiobuttons is enough.

Textbox is _very_ complex. Think of all the code you'd have to
add to ports to check what was entered by the user.
At the very least you have to verify that whatever was provided
is valid. For the feature not to become annoying you'd have to
be a lot more fuzzy and complex, though.

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