Checking port option descriptions

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Margaret wrote:

> [Default] On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:47:10 +0100, Mike Clarke
> <jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> For cases where one line comments won't suffice how about providing the facility
>> to include an extra text file in a port (perhaps "pkg-options") containing
>> notes about why some particular options would be chosen?
>>
>> In its simplest form a user would be able to refer to the file before selecting
>> an option, A further enhancement could be to modify the way that configure
>> works so that the user can select an option and press "?" to see the section
>> of text, if any, from pkg-options explaining that option.
>
> I like that idea!
>
> The nice thing about good, useful comments is that, like the
> software itself, they generally only have to be written from
> scratch ONCE.
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to agree a template for the file you
> propose.

This already exists, without adding anything at all.  There is help text 
at the bottom of the screen to show these.  Unfortunately, I can't think 
of an example.