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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:21:09 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <lawrance@FreeBSD.org>
To:        TooMany Secrets <toomany@toomany.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to make a make install without questions?
Message-ID:  <37D43FA1-0297-4497-A335-EF1D72C8A0D2@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <e8b5dfd50706170310g5aea6004ja5984ed6533a9202@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e8b5dfd50706170310g5aea6004ja5984ed6533a9202@mail.gmail.com>

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On 17/06/2007, at 8:10 PM, TooMany Secrets wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Excuse me if this is a estupid question, but in six years with
> FreeBSD, today I haven't still an answer to this:
> - If I make a "make install clean", in a port like "x11/kde3", are
> there any way to make the lack of questions? Or maybe better, are
> there any way to make anything like "make -y (or -Y for YES options)
> install clean"?
>
> The trouble is ports like KDE, with platform independency (more or
> less cpu power), take more time because you need to stay (more or
> less) in front of computer to choose and accept the port options.
> I understand that you don't need this with other ports (like apache,
> php, etc), for obvious reasons. But I think that with ports like
> gnome2 or kde3, maybe I believe that it would be a great saving of
> time.
>
> Sorry if the question is understandable for my bad english.

make -DBATCH ...

See the "ports" man page ;-)




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