Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-31 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:12:44PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Jerry wrote: > > > >> I agree whole heartily. Unfortunately, all too many ports have > >> options that all cryptic in nature. There really needs to be be

Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Freddie Cash wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Jerry 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 additio

Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 15:09:55 +0200 > Michael Gmelin articulated: > > > On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:08:29 +0200 > > John Marino wrote: > > > > > On 5/30/2013 13:27, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > > I assume there are better ways to make this clear. It might

Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On 30 May 2013 16:57, Jerry 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 whateve

Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 30 May 2013 15:09:55 +0200 Michael Gmelin articulated: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:08:29 +0200 > John Marino wrote: > > > On 5/30/2013 13:27, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > I assume there are better ways to make this clear. It might even > > > make sense to have a basic distinction on the port

Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:08:29 +0200 John Marino wrote: > On 5/30/2013 13:27, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > I assume there are better ways to make this clear. It might even > > make sense to have a basic distinction on the ports system level - > > options that provide additional features vs. options th

Re: shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread John Marino
On 5/30/2013 13:27, Michael Gmelin wrote: I assume there are better ways to make this clear. It might even make sense to have a basic distinction on the ports system level - options that provide additional features vs. options that change the (default) behavior of the port. Isn't this implicit

shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Gmelin
Hi, Since shells/bash has been converted to OptionsNG the following new options show up: [x] COLONBREAKSWORDS Colons break words [x] IMPLICITCDUse directory name alone to cd into it both enabled by default. This does not change the previous behaviour of the port, when those were hidden