[CFT] New dialog for ports

[Baptiste Daroussin]

Hi all,

Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports
tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1)
designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng.

It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able to deal
with both normal and radio options in the same window.

dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be updated and get
support for new features on all supported arches at the same time.

It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent libdialog in
base (read 8.x)

dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be able to
print a human readable help text if possible.

Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by default.
What it does is:
When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the ports
tree will install dialog4ports first.

New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port
directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et propose
him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file

http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff

Please test!

regards,
Bapt
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