From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 09:05:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A63106564A for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 130EB8FC1E for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2008 08:39:12 -0000 Received: from f049006106.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO m2a2.dyndns.org) [78.49.6.106] by mail.gmx.net (mp044) with SMTP; 26 Mar 2008 09:39:12 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18DCW0FT6sDFQNFEqowfbOb/nqaNvHHfZs0cb+h+2 yp1H7KZ8yGhQan Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFC1200CFE; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:39:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at emma.line.org Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OtMbbf1cLgRG; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:39:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id C7581200D2E; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:39:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:39:10 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080326083910.GA7983@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org References: <20080326053328.GA29448@duncan.reilly.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080326053328.GA29448@duncan.reilly.home> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2008-03-09) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Subject: Re: There is no way to know what port options mean (in general) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:05:55 -0000 On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrew Reilly wrote: > Suggestion: In lieu of interactive F1 or ? keys popping > up descriptive windows (which could be nice), it would be > keen if ports could grow a new target with a name like > "desc-config" that would print out a paragraph (supplied by > the port creator/maintainer) that had at least a(n) (explicit) > reference to the port that the config knob pulled in as a > dependency. Better would be a short paragraph about why one > might want to do that, and perhaps what alternatives might > exist. > > Thoughts: ? Twofold: 1 - descriptions don't hurt 2 - OPTIONS interdependencies are something else, and something which goes much in the direction of Linux's "make config/xconfig/gconfig/menuconfig" kconf framework -- Matthias Andree