Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-10-17 Thread scratch65535
[Default] On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:13:56 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >Well, how about phpmyadmin as a for-instance? There are about eight PHP >modules which phpmyadmin will automagically adapt to the presence or >absence of at runtime and turn on or off corresponding bits of

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-19 Thread Franco Fichtner
> On 19 Sep 2016, at 12:59 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > > In the end of this story - we are no longer using ports versions for any PHP > web applications. We are using them directly because ports were more > problematic. We use various PHP packages from ports for a larger

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-19 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Matthew Seaman wrote on 09/19/2016 11:13: On 09/19/16 08:48, Miroslav Lachman wrote: The next problem is options doing nothing to "this" port but just pull some other port as dependency because maintainer thinks it is useful for the end users to have installed it too - this should be avoided

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/19/16 08:48, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > The next problem is options doing nothing to "this" port but just pull > some other port as dependency because maintainer thinks it is useful for > the end users to have installed it too - this should be avoided (IMHO). I must respectfully disagree

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-19 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Warren Block wrote on 09/16/2016 17:52: Ports options ask the user to make a decision on whether to enable that option. Option descriptions are critical for this, giving the user information to help them make that decision. Unfortunately, what is clear to the porter is often not clear to a

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Margaret wrote: [Default] On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:47:10 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: For cases where one line comments won't suffice how about providing the facility to include an extra text file in a port (perhaps "pkg-options") containing notes

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-17 Thread Margaret
[Default] On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:47:10 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: >For cases where one line comments won't suffice how about providing the >facility >to include an extra text file in a port (perhaps "pkg-options") containing >notes about why some particular options

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-17 Thread olli hauer
On 2016-09-17 10:47, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Friday 16 Sep 2016 20:09:06 Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Even when the meaning is clear in global sense, what are the implications >> for an application. E.g. "RTC=on: Add support for kernel real time clock" >> in mplayer. I know exactly what the RTC is,

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-17 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 16 Sep 2016 20:09:06 Kevin Oberman wrote: > Even when the meaning is clear in global sense, what are the implications > for an application. E.g. "RTC=on: Add support for kernel real time clock" > in mplayer. I know exactly what the RTC is, but I have no idea why I might > or might not

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:42 PM, wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:11:51 -0400, Jim Ohlstein > wrote: > > >"[S]ome" being the operative word here. I don't disagres with your basic > >premise, but the truth is, at the end of the day it's up to the user to >

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-16 Thread scratch65535
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:11:51 -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote: >"[S]ome" being the operative word here. I don't disagres with your basic >premise, but the truth is, at the end of the day it's up to the user to >understand the consequences of his decisions. If a user doesn't know

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-16 Thread Jim Ohlstein
Hello, On 09/16/2016 11:52 AM, Warren Block wrote: Ports options ask the user to make a decision on whether to enable that option. Option descriptions are critical for this, giving the user information to help them make that decision. Unfortunately, what is clear to the porter is often not

Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-16 Thread Warren Block
Ports options ask the user to make a decision on whether to enable that option. Option descriptions are critical for this, giving the user information to help them make that decision. Unfortunately, what is clear to the porter is often not clear to a user. The Porter's Handbook says "Do not