On 30 May 2013 16:57, Jerry <je...@seibercom.net> wrote: > I agree whole heartily. Unfortunately, all too many ports have > options that all cryptic in nature. There really needs to be better > documentation as to what the options actually do. Perhaps having an > additional file in each port named "OPTDESC", or whatever that would > list each available option for the port and exactly what it did would > prove useful. It certainly would not be a burden as over 90% of the > ports that have either none or just one or two options. Besides, if > some maintainer created a port with 40 or 50 configurable options, then > they certainly can take the time to fully document them.
support for this file, called pkg-help, is on the way. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
