On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 02/25/2012 16:33, Royce Williams wrote: >> I really did mean that I was looking for a Rosetta Stone > > Yes, I know what a Rosetta Stone is, so I understood what you were > asking for.
Apologies - I didn't mean to imply otherwise! > But there are (at least) 3 problems with that approach: > > 1. I never used portupgrade, so I couldn't answer those questions anyway. Understood. For me, I will have to answer them, and I'd like to "cache" the results so that others can follow. Perhaps it will make migration easier for others like myself. > 2. By trying to "cheat" the learning process you miss out on the ability > to challenge your own thinking about why and how you do things. And finally, My intent wasn't so much to cheat as to supplement. After ingesting the entire man page, I suspect that I'll need a quick reference for some time. > 3. They are different tools, with different approaches, and not > everything you did with portupgrade can (or often should) translate > directly to something you can or should do with portmaster. Populating that field in the Rosetta Stone table with "n/a", or a short explanation of the can/should info should help people quickly track down those gaps and gotchas. In fact, that's where the value of such a reference could really shine, IMO. > Don't bother with the output of --help now, it is there only for a quick > reference once you've learned something about how the program works. > There is no substitute for *actually reading the man page.* Understood, and agreed wholeheartedly. > If, instead of trying to find ways not to read it, you had spent the 10 > or 20 minutes it should take you to *actually* read it, you'd be well on > you way by now. :) Just trying to leverage my work so that others can benefit. I hope to find a balance somewhere between a non-man-page-readin' crutch and a useful cross-reference ... hopefully more toward the latter. Maybe it's best if I just pipe down now and actually start, and solicit feedback once there's something to feed back about. Perhaps, once I start, I'll find that there's not a lot of value in it. But for those of us not fluent in both, there's only one way to find out! :-) Royce _______________________________________________ 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"
