Re: General usefulness of option descriptions

2012-10-10 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 15:24:28 +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: > Hi, > > This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases > using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm than good. > > I converted security/libpreludedb to OptionsNG yesterday and > left in most of the des

Re: General usefulness of option descriptions

2012-10-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On 7 October 2012 09:24, Michael Gmelin wrote: > Hi, > > This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases > using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm than good. ... FWIW, I just want to say, I completely agree with the content of your email. It isn't always clear

Re: General usefulness of option descriptions

2012-10-07 Thread Doug Barton
First, it was totally inappropriate for eadler to change your option descriptions. I've fixed it for you. More below. On 10/07/2012 06:24, Michael Gmelin wrote: > Hi, > > This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases > using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm

Re: General usefulness of option descriptions

2012-10-07 Thread Milan Obuch
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:24:28 +0200 Michael Gmelin wrote: > Hi, > > This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases > using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm than good. > > I converted security/libpreludedb to OptionsNG yesterday and > left in most of the descrip

Re: General usefulness of option descriptions

2012-10-07 Thread Marcus von Appen
On, Sun Oct 07, 2012, Michael Gmelin wrote: > Hi, > > This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases > using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm than good. That's not entirely true. They can provide a fallback, if the port maintainer forgot to add a meaningful d

General usefulness of option descriptions

2012-10-07 Thread Michael Gmelin
Hi, This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm than good. I converted security/libpreludedb to OptionsNG yesterday and left in most of the descriptions and therefore overrode them. I did that for a good reason, since