From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 23 09:17:38 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009BFD58; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdml@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD08F37; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.31.9.98] (unknown [213.225.137.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F8043BC5; Thu, 23 May 2013 04:17:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <519DDEA6.4030106@marino.st> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:17:26 +0200 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ilya A. Arkhipov" Subject: Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default? References: <20130523054541.GH96836@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <758641369300207@web4g.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <758641369300207@web4g.yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" , Baptiste Daroussin X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:17:38 -0000 On 5/23/2013 11:10, Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote: > I think it is not good idea, because if user don't know regarding options in ports he should do a make config and if it not exist should do a make install in this case we have two action.. > Maybe other way for fix these frequent "popping" add needed options to make.conf I like the suggestion that if the dialog consists only of globally set options (NLS, DOC, etc) then it shouldn't appear by default. I also think Ilya has a point in general -- how does one know that there are options available to set in the case of default is "no pop?". There would have to be some sort of announcement that along the lines of "no configuration found, using default settings" so the user would have some sign. Even if the configuration is found, it would still be nice to be informed that a port has options (maybe part of pre-configure?) John