svn commit: r305288 - head/Mk

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 8 06:12:53 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:56:21AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 02:18:16PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > If you actually look at them in an options dialog they make just as much
> > sense with or without the word "support."
> 
> While they keep the sense, it takes few more brain cycles to parse IMHO.
> Also "support" is nice placeholder word for generic support (as opposed to
> some specific usage for particular feature, or when words like "use" are
> being used).
> 
> > Meanwhile, whatever changes you propose have to take into account the
> > options for ports like www/firefox on stable/8. Before my fix they were
> > utterly broken (as in, the dialog was totally blank). Now they work just
> > fine.
> 
> That's because OptionsNG poorly implement mutually exclusive options.  I
> hope that eventually dialog's --radiolist would be utilized for proper
> handling, and sane knobs names would be restored.
> 
> Sounds like a nice port junior hacker project.

Not hat junior dialog(1) can't mix radiolist and classic checklist that is why
it doesn't use it, using libdialog(3), it would be easiy to implement, but that
won't be usable for a while (until all supported version of freebsd has it.

Bapt
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