cvs commit: ports KNOBS

[Michael Johnson]

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On Nov 5, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:59:55AM +0000, Michael Johnson wrote:
>
>> ahze        2005-11-05 06:59:55 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>   Added files:
>>     .                    KNOBS
>>   Log:
>>   - Add KNOBS, this file has a list of popular knobs with a short
>>     description of what the knob is and does. The intent is to
>>     help porters keep like-name knobs through out the ports tree
>>     and end-users have a single file they can look up knobs in.
>>
>>   Limitations to KNOBS: In the future we plan to add support for  
>> OPTIONS
>>      to support the KNOBS file, and so dialog(1) will be able to  
>> handle the
>>      size of each knob knob-name's are limited to 12 characters and
>>      knob-descriptions are limited to 45 characters, not including  
>> the
>>      white space between the knob-name and knob-description.
>>
>>   Naming knobs: When a port has a lib-prefix (ie: libquicktime,  
>> libxine)
>>      the lib-prefix should be stripped from the knob name.
>>      (ie: QUICKTIME, XINE)
>>
>>   Based around:   brain storm ideas from mezz and I
>>   Approved by:    portmgr
>>
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.1       +91 -0     ports/KNOBS (new)
>>
>
> Am I the only person who couldn't stop sniggering when they read this?

Just wonder why this is funny? I don't see what it is.


>
> Ceri
> -- 
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and  
> I'm
> not sure about the former.              -- Einstein (attrib.)
>

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