shells/bash: Options slightly confusing

[Eitan Adler]

On 30 May 2013 16:57, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> 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 whatever that would
> list each available option for the port and exactly what it did would
> prove useful. It certainly would not be a burden as over 90% of the
> ports that have either none or just one or two options. Besides, if
> some maintainer created a port with 40 or 50 configurable options, then
> they certainly can take the time to fully document them.

support for this file, called pkg-help, is on the way.


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Eitan Adler