Recent dialog4ports update

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Thu Jun 20 21:24:31 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, thanks for the recent change to dialog4ports to tag new options with
> a '+'. It's a feature I have wanted for a long time!
>
> But I see the ports(7) man page has not been updated with any of this
> information. It still claims that ports uses dialog(1) There is no
> indication of this in dialog4ports(1), which mostly just points people at
> dialog(1). Of course, the dialog(1) page says nothing about it nor does
> UPDATING. I had to find it in svn commits. Most users will probably never
> look there.

fwiw, CHANGES does mention it, but this is a developer's file not a user's file.

I just modified the ports man page in HEAD and will MFC it shortly.

However, because the ports system is decoupled from base the man page
tends to get out of date fairly easily. :(


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Eitan Adler


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