Proposed addition to the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> writes:

> If is determined to be a 'worthy-cost' I can do up a proposal 
> explaining how to determine and use  make arguements to a port. 

Sounds helpful, though I think it would be good to keep it in some
kind of "advanced" section or even an article.  The ports/pkgs section
is already heavy reading.

I'd hope it would at least mention pkgtools.conf(5) so users know the
special arguments don't HAVE to be typed in for every use.  The
handbook doesn't mention it now.

And maybe say something about those curses menus that "pop up" and
halt your port installs (if you don't use sufficient make variables?).