Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:31:53 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed addition to the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Message-ID: <i6aci6833a.ci6@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200509211504.46861.josh@tcbug.org> (Josh Paetzel's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:04:46 -0500") References: <200509211504.46861.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> writes: > If is determined to be a 'worthy-cost' I can do up a proposal > explaining how to determine and use make arguements to a port. Sounds helpful, though I think it would be good to keep it in some kind of "advanced" section or even an article. The ports/pkgs section is already heavy reading. I'd hope it would at least mention pkgtools.conf(5) so users know the special arguments don't HAVE to be typed in for every use. The handbook doesn't mention it now. And maybe say something about those curses menus that "pop up" and halt your port installs (if you don't use sufficient make variables?).
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