## Ian Lepore (i...@freebsd.org): > That's a bit of a harsh tone to take with a user who has questions.
Sorry, the day is getting long (and it doesn't sound that harsh in german, it definitively wasn't meant that harsh). > If > Bob was an aspiring ports developer, maybe a response like that would > make some sense. Asking a user who knows how to build ports to be > poking around in and understanding the guts of the ports build > framework is a bit much. Asking them to even know bsd.port.mk *exists* > is a bit much. Every ports developer started by compiling their own ports :) At least, that's how I started. And I had mentioned bsd.ports.mk in my previous mail. > A good response would be to point a user to the manpage that documents > all this stuff. Oh wait... there isn't one. There is ports(7), and again it redirects to bsd.ports.mk. I'm not even sure we could have all the ports make variables in a man page - the knobs of the ports tree depend on your checkout (portsnap, svn, whatever) and not on the base system or some installed package. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
