Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Fri May 24 03:11:56 UTC 2013
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are already two "native" ways to do this:
>> make config-recursive
>> use a ports management tool like portmaster/portupgrade
>
> portmaster certainly does not do this, nor make
> config-recursive(although it faster than the portmaster dialog). As I
> already mentioned, portupgrade used to give them to you all at once,
> no interruptions between IIRC. As it stands right now, 'portmaster
> x11/kde4' on a clean install pretty much guarantees you'll be console
> baby sitting for 1/2 hr or more unless you use the accept defaults
> option. To put it another, I think the default make behavior should
> be more akin 'make config-recursive' rather than take each OPTION as
> it comes.
portmaster has always shown all the config dialogs before starting a
build. Granted, it can take a while. portupgrade can do it with the -c
or -C options, but does not do it by default. Or didn't last I looked.
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