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authorrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2018-05-28 22:34:47 +0000
committerrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2018-05-28 22:34:47 +0000
commit02f4e97bc630f91330429399418c9b2eb3cb6fc8 (patch)
tree6a1597e4aaa2e283bf85c881e9d282e0e2d74d1f
parent21551ba2dbc7c21d001b484cc5a51730ccfc93f1 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-02f4e97bc630f91330429399418c9b2eb3cb6fc8.tar.gz
mk/misc/show.mk: improve wording of the help text
-rw-r--r--mk/misc/show.mk10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mk/misc/show.mk b/mk/misc/show.mk
index baf4709194b..4aad40fef3c 100644
--- a/mk/misc/show.mk
+++ b/mk/misc/show.mk
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: show.mk,v 1.13 2018/02/26 22:51:42 rillig Exp $
+# $NetBSD: show.mk,v 1.14 2018/05/28 22:34:47 rillig Exp $
#
# This file contains some targets that print information gathered from
# variables. They do not modify any variables.
@@ -82,15 +82,15 @@ show-build-defs: .PHONY
# Prints a list of (hopefully) all pkgsrc variables that are visible
# to the user or the package developer. It is intended to give
# interested parties a better insight into the inner workings of
-# pkgsrc. Each variable name is prefixed with a "category":
+# pkgsrc. Each variable name is prefixed with a "scope":
#
# * "usr" for user-settable variables,
# * "pkg" for package-settable variables,
# * "sys" for system-defined variables.
#
-# For each of the variable groups (e.g. "build", "extract"), a
-# specialized target show-all-${group} is defined, so that
-# show-all-extract only shows that group.
+# The variables are listed in groups (e.g. "build", "extract").
+# For each of these groups, a specialized target show-all-${group}
+# is defined, e.g. "show-all-extract" for the "extract" group.
#
# CAVEAT: Some few variable values that are shown here may be
# misleading. For example, make(1)'s := operator leaves references