Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:30:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jim Trigg" <jtrigg@spamcop.net> To: "Jim Trigg" <jtrigg@spamcop.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, parv@pair.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure Message-ID: <27100.128.222.32.10.1126805405.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> In-Reply-To: <54489.128.222.32.10.1126804589.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> References: <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050915173655.308a168d.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20050915155710.GX64690@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200509151817.58927.lofi@freebsd.org> <54489.128.222.32.10.1126804589.squirrel@mail.scadian.net>
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On Thu, September 15, 2005 1:16 pm, Jim Trigg wrote: > On Thu, September 15, 2005 12:17 pm, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >> Well, it doesn't really do much more than that. Some ports want user >> interaction and instead try some default action if BATCH is set. There's >> also the variant where a port could insist on user interaction by >> setting >> IS_INTERACTIVE, then defining BATCH would skip this port altogether. The >> first variety is pretty rare and I cannot remember any port of the >> second >> right now. > > One example of the second is mail/ecartis, which asks whether to create a > user and a group. I think that it would be better if IS_INTERACTIVE were > only set on initial install (or if the user and group did not already > exist), but I'm not the maintainer... Having searched the ports collection, there are a total of 97 ports which set IS_INTERACTIVE. Jim
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