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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:11:02 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports
Message-ID:  <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303170846130.8399@wonkity.com>
References:  <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303170846130.8399@wonkity.com>

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>=20
> > Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the =
ports
> > tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for =
dialog(1)
> > designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng.
>=20
> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are=20
> not supported.  We really need this.  A maintainer should be concerned=20
> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at=
=20
> the cost of clarity.  The user should not have to interpret short or=20
> cut-off option descriptions.

pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worked on=
 for
a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this version?=
 I
think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested.

regards,
Bapt

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