passing params to startupitem.executable / portfile.7

[Weissmann Markus]

On 28.10.2007, at 16:51, markd at macports.org wrote:

> James Berry <jberry at macports.org> writes:
>> I'm pretty sure that if you specify this like:
>>
>> 	startupitem.executable mybinary -d 10 -t 600
>>
>> that it will work correctly. In other words, don't do the following:
>>
>> 	startupitem.executable "mybinary -d 10 -t 600"
>
> I'll try that, thanks.
>>
>>> Also, I think the portfile.7 man page needs to be split up because
>>> it is
>>> getting so big.  I propose splitting portfile.7 into four parts.
>>> What do
>>> you think?
>>
>> I guess I'm open to this. I'd love to hear comment from others,
>> however, And would there still be a portfile.7 manpage that gave
>> general overview and gets people started?
>
> Yes, I think there still should still be a portfile.7.  I've  
> started to
> split them jus tto see how it would look.  It is an experiment at this
> point and hopefully soon I'll have something that people can look  
> at and
> give judgement on.
>

Pretty neat! I think this is a very good idea -- especially since the  
XML formatting takes a lot of extra-space anyway. Good job! :)


-Markus

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