From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 23 11:43:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694D7B69 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 11:43:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x229.google.com (mail-wg0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0153394A for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 11:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id c11so3372229wgh.0 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 04:43:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=xEPvcSvZboIG2Jk2LJDuiyS4NOdliyWnn2SfprhkkyA=; b=Em94gN8Hhm84yLcFqHctjN8pbFWXcisVjjg8pWMvdKgA9BN5v4DRk5e+5Kik5lFC3U 7NBVVeEq0ivWVm5nhJNASHS2XWKU0NYmUBtFz+DYifZ9HLaVRfUu9WiLYtv7aGqDkIpV rSFtLu6XjQicdCBN4t7bV116b61CE3jlO+R4Sauj5oz93HontkDMB3WRd/4OdBuyv2re 1qqHoDnWUe5rZNmu85A1HXpc7vlb9IvpzoCDyjIBlAeHP6G4CPD/3VX1gqTNtRAeAnoY GiUkl+iuQGWroFTtLkm/AIJQsDcn0pl+/mYMxMyVklpvXSrQ5ShG4tsQOLDv+MRAqZWP XfSQ== X-Received: by 10.180.21.193 with SMTP id x1mr23768114wie.31.1369309415164; Thu, 23 May 2013 04:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ithaqua.etoilebsd.net (ithaqua.etoilebsd.net. [37.59.37.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e5sm17055852wiy.5.2013.05.23.04.43.33 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 23 May 2013 04:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:31 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default? Message-ID: <20130523114331.GM96836@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <807189.9206.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8c07nsHwQobhlezh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <807189.9206.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 11:43:36 -0000 --8c07nsHwQobhlezh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:08:58AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog = popping > > up all the time. >=20 > > What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each t= ime there > > is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config? >=20 > > Just a proposal, please give your opinion. >=20 > > Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change. >=20 > > regards, > > Bapt >=20 > The new dialog4ports has made the dialog much less disruptive than before= , especially when teeing to a log file. >=20 > So now I don't dread the dialog as I used to. >=20 > But it would still be good to be able to set options through make.conf, c= omparable to what pkgsrc (NetBSD and ported to other mostly Unix-like OSes)= and portage (Gentoo Linux) do. You can already: OPTIONS_SET/UNSET, vim_SET/UNSET >=20 > I have noticed how DOCS with docbook can be very cumbersome and overdone,= how many different formats do we need? >=20 > And hopefully docbook wouldn't have to be rebuilt every time for differen= t ports that might require it. >=20 > Tom >=20 --8c07nsHwQobhlezh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlGeAOMACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExlrwCfSWJ+rytja04WS+8L4jA0D0fj H8wAnRT537oy0C3KXYKdo3/sBuVFXgW+ =ZUrb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8c07nsHwQobhlezh--