From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 19 16:49:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from max.ineocom.com (max.ineocom.com [205.150.136.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADAB37B403; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by max.ineocom.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E1584283A0; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:26:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by max.ineocom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B47244F7; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:26:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:26:54 -0400 (EDT) From: User SCARR To: Will Andrews Cc: , , , Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20011019121555.V25747@squall.waterspout.com> Message-ID: <20011019132322.Q85173-100000@max.ineocom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Will Andrews wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:15:31PM -0400, scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > I think the actual problem isn't so much the message per se, its the fact > > its placed in the wrong place. It should be shown at the *end* of the > > build instead of during the building of kdebase. When you go to build the > > metaport of KDE2 no one wants to sit there watching the output for 12 > > hours while it builds. They want to come back and see the familiar > > "everything built ok" and then install it. If you place it as the message > > at the end of the build *alot* more people would see the > > message. Otherwise no one is going to catch it. Just my $.02. > Yeah, I'm aware of that. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can > do about that, because people might be invoking the kdebase port > from anywhere. So it's a general ports problem. :\ Maybe people could set an enviornment variable to make it setuid during the build? So they'd have to explicitly read the notes in the ports collection and say "Yeah I want that" before it's done... Just a thought. I don't know how this would work for packages though. -- Simon Carr Ineocom - http://www.ineocom.com Tel: 416.831.7876 - Fax: 416.831.7875 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message