Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?

[Hiroki Sato]

Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote
  in <20130523054541.GH96836 at ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>:

ba> hi,
ba>
ba> A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog popping
ba> up all the time.
ba>
ba> What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each time there
ba> is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config?
ba>
ba> Just a proposal, please give your opinion.
ba>
ba> Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change.

 I am using the attached patch locally to make the four global knobs
 silent.  This is a kind of overkill, but "adding OPTIONS_NOMENU and
 making the do-config target skip the dialog invocation when all of
 values in OPTIONS_DEFINE are defined in OPTIONS_NOMENU" would be a
 compromise.  If one wants dialog for the global knobs, OPTIONS_NOMENU
 can always be redefined in make.conf.

 I think each port should define their knobs in OPTIONS_DEFINE even
 for global ones like DOCS because it is more consistent.

-- Hiroki
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