From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 17:01:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6E416A420; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:01:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahze@ahze.net) Received: from imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384AD43D48; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:01:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahze@ahze.net) Received: from ibm65aec.bellsouth.net ([68.209.163.3]) by imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051105170131.FSAP6855.imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm65aec.bellsouth.net>; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:01:31 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (really [68.209.163.3]) by ibm65aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051105170125.TWIR4534.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@[192.168.1.5]>; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:01:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20051105130644.GR29387@submonkey.net> References: <200511050659.jA56xtml021798@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051105130644.GR29387@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Johnson Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:01:16 -0500 To: Ceri Davies X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.1 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports KNOBS X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 17:01:33 -0000 -----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-----