Documenting 'make config' options

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 06/09/2012 17:54, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote:
>>>> Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine.
>>>
>>> For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more information
>>> about what the various options mean?" This idea seems reasonable to me,
>>> what do others think?
>>
>> The user needs to know what the options mean when they appear, and
>> having to go look them up in another file is just another hassle.
>> Difficult to do in some situations, too.  Better to show them when the
>> user scrolls to that option.  Here's what I suggested in -stable:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-June/068187.html
>>
>> No new files, only one copy of the descriptions so they don't get out of
>> sync.
>
> That's a nice idea, how do you make it work with dialog?

No idea, this is still the design phase. :)  Actually, a message I now 
can't find suggested that dialog may be able to do it unchanged.