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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:06:29 +0100
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r521020 - in head: Mk benchmarks/netperf devel/cvsbook math/R sysutils/screen
Message-ID:  <20191228180629.GU15264@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1912282114430.13725@anthias.pfeifer.com>
References:  <201912271924.xBRJOuQq001669@repo.freebsd.org> <alpine.LSU.2.21.1912282114430.13725@anthias.pfeifer.com>

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On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 09:19:08PM +1000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2019, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > Author: marius
> > Date: Fri Dec 27 19:24:56 2019
> > New Revision: 521020
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/521020
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add and use a shared INFO description. I have patches to add that knob to
> >   a bunch of additional ports.
> 
> Nice consolidation work.
> 
> > +INFO_DESC?=		Build and/or install info documentation
> 
> For someone not closely familiar with the GNU universe (which is quite 
> possible, in particular in a FreeBSD context) "info documentation" may
> feel a bit weird, as in "of course documentation is information".
> 
> How about making this "documentation in GNU info format" (or a variation
> thereof)?

"Build and/or install documentation in GNU info format" exceeds the 43
characters limit and I can't think of a sufficiently short description
that is as pedantic and precise. Do you have a better suggestion?

> > +++ head/devel/cvsbook/Makefile	Fri Dec 27 19:24:56 2019	(r521020)
> > -INFO_DESC=		Install the info version
> >  SINGLE_HTML_DESC=	Install the single HTML version
> >  SPLIT_HTML_DESC=	Install the split HTML version
> >  POSTSCRIPT_DESC=	Install the Postscript version
> 
> This one suffers from the consolidation; may I suggest to keep the
> original INFO_DESC in this one case?

Okay

Marius




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