Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:07:28 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: "Jim Trigg" <jtrigg@spamcop.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure Message-ID: <200509152007.34711.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <54489.128.222.32.10.1126804589.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> References: <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org> <200509151817.58927.lofi@freebsd.org> <54489.128.222.32.10.1126804589.squirrel@mail.scadian.net>
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--nextPart5810613.1jQqfmXfGp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 15. September 2005 19:16, 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 setti= ng > > IS_INTERACTIVE, then defining BATCH would skip this port altogether. The > > first variety is pretty rare and I cannot remember any port of the seco= nd > > 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=20 > only set on initial install (or if the user and group did not already > exist), but I'm not the maintainer... This is getting a bit offtopic, but yeah - ideally the port would patch out= =20 the interactive bits of ecartis' install target and handle creation and=20 removal of the uid/gid itself. If you think you can make a patch for the port that does that, don't hesita= te=20 to submit a PR. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart5810613.1jQqfmXfGp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDKbhmXhc68WspdLARAhvtAKCnQAkUqSH4hOCMuG/UJEusMfkx+wCePLXR PPb6RpUKTvvnOyeCmhr/8yc= =OdfS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5810613.1jQqfmXfGp--
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