Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:01:16 -0500 From: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports KNOBS Message-ID: <FA4E3543-8385-431F-9779-4D694C671577@ahze.net> In-Reply-To: <20051105130644.GR29387@submonkey.net> References: <200511050659.jA56xtml021798@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051105130644.GR29387@submonkey.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 5, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:59:55AM +0000, Michael Johnson wrote: > >> ahze 2005-11-05 06:59:55 UTC >> >> FreeBSD ports repository >> >> Added files: >> . KNOBS >> Log: >> - Add KNOBS, this file has a list of popular knobs with a short >> description of what the knob is and does. The intent is to >> help porters keep like-name knobs through out the ports tree >> and end-users have a single file they can look up knobs in. >> >> Limitations to KNOBS: In the future we plan to add support for >> OPTIONS >> to support the KNOBS file, and so dialog(1) will be able to >> handle the >> size of each knob knob-name's are limited to 12 characters and >> knob-descriptions are limited to 45 characters, not including >> the >> white space between the knob-name and knob-description. >> >> Naming knobs: When a port has a lib-prefix (ie: libquicktime, >> libxine) >> the lib-prefix should be stripped from the knob name. >> (ie: QUICKTIME, XINE) >> >> Based around: brain storm ideas from mezz and I >> Approved by: portmgr >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.1 +91 -0 ports/KNOBS (new) >> > > Am I the only person who couldn't stop sniggering when they read this? Just wonder why this is funny? I don't see what it is. > > Ceri > -- > Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and > I'm > not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDbOVfn4uqfTwEb9YRAmrfAKC+bKIZBOzBeXbOWcqIoNqMKv+4wwCgs3vI yhOYEbzQ65kEkbCyyOozAwI= =gUbL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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