General usefulness of option descriptions

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Mon Oct 8 00:30:12 UTC 2012


On 7 October 2012 09:24, Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This probably has been discussed before, but I think in many cases
> using the default descriptions of OptionsNG is more harm than good.

...

FWIW, I just want to say, I completely agree with the content of your email.
It isn't always clear when to use the global options and when to
overide options.

In this case the custom options are likely better, but it remains to
be seen how this file evolves.


-- 
Eitan Adler


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