multimedia/vlc options

[Juergen Lock]

In article <20120923092119.GB18959 at lena.kiev> you write:
>> 8.3-RELEASE-p2 i386. After
>> update
>> `make config` doesn't show checkboxes for options
>
>> May be it works in FreeBSD 9 and later,
>> but in 8 and earlier the 'make config' dialog behaves differently.
>
>Same problem with www/firefox and possibly some other ports,
>but no problem with most other ports, I tried:
>OpenEXR, aee, alsa-plugins, audacity, aumix, avahi, babl, binutils,
>boehm-gc, boost-libs, ca_root_nss, cairo, catdoc, centericq, centerim,
>clamav, coreutils, cups-base, print/ghostscript8.
>
>So, perhaps the culprit is some recent change somewhere in /usr/ports/Mk .
>
>Problem:
>[...]

Seems dialog(1) on 8.x handles longer descriptions less well than
later(?)

 Anyway I have shortened the offending description so you can try
again now.

 Thanx, :)
	Juergen