bmake help (Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] The pkgsrc-2008Q2 Branch)

["William J. Coldwell" <billc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> >    Could you guys please make 'bmake help' actually print out  
> > something
> >    useful?  Like a summary of commonly used commands?  What it does  
> > now
> >    is really not very useful at all unless you are already a pkgsrc  
> > expert.
> >
> >    (fetch-list, update, replace, pkg_rolling-replace, license stuff,
> >    package option commands, etc).

> Yeah, a good point, and one I agree with completely - it's hardly
> "help" if you need extensive background information to know what
> to type.
>
> I'll include tech-pkg@pkgsrc.org on this reply - the guys who did the
> "bmake help" all read that list.  tech-pkg people - what do you think?


here here.

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