Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:33:17 +0200 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ./options-descr file suggestion for ports Message-ID: <20070609203316.GC71246@voodoo.bawue.com> In-Reply-To: <200706090936.51775.david@vizion2000.net> References: <200706090936.51775.david@vizion2000.net>
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On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:36:51AM -0700, David Southwell wrote: > Hi > > Would it be possible , when a port has options, to ask porters if they would > consider the merits/demerits of adding: > > 1. An ./options-descr file in the port directory that describes the options, > their purpose and any notes about an option > > Reasons: > This would be extremely useful for anyone not familiar with the port to help > in the task of choosing which options to install. > > I realise that this would depend upon whether maintainers are willing to add > an additional task to the already heavy burden they undertake. Maintainers > who are willing to consider this idea but are reluctant to prepare the notes > themselves but do not have the time or are for any reason reluctant to do so, > could invite users to submit notes for incorporating in ./options-descr. > > By way of example I am just installing www/ruby-gem-rails and had no immediate > idea whether or not to add fastcgi support without trying to find out whether > it is or is not needed when one has mod_ruby installed and > LoadModule ruby_module libexec/apache/mod_ruby.so > in httpd.conf. A brief note in a ./options-descr could be very helpful, > especially for some ports where the options are sometimes numerous and not > always completely documented. > > A little bit of intial guidance about options would be most helpful to a > system administrator who is not necessarily familiar with the a specific > port. That's what ports/KNOBS supposed to be, see rev. 1.1 by ahze: 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. Though, I don't know when OPTIONS support to KNOBS will be added. -Kirill
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