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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:36:15 -0500
From:      "Guy Helmer" <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
To:        "Will Andrews" <will@physics.purdue.edu>, <scanner@jurai.net>
Cc:        <security@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, <kde@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: your mail
Message-ID:  <HEEHKIJOHDLFOOEBABJIEEHMCAAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011019121555.V25747@squall.waterspout.com>

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> On Friday, October 19, 2001 12:16 PM, 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.  :\

How about sending an email message to "root" with this message?  It solves
the problem of the message scrolling by during the installation...

Guy


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