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On 2004-10-12 at 15:51 -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> I personally do not like dialog's in ports, period. It makes unattended 
> builds a pain, mostly when compiling large ports with an extensive list 
> of depends, you never know which dependency is going to pop up a dialog 
> in the middle of an all-night build. I would suggest implementing your 
> idea specifically for your port. I dont see any reason to hack up 
> bsd.port.mk with anymore dialogs.

For unattended builds just set either PACKAGE_BUILDING=yes or BATCH=yes
to avoid any configuration dialogs.

Sergei