From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 7:37:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp233-199.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED8C37B736 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 07:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA91354; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:37:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "C J Michaels" To: "R Joseph Wright" , "Rahul Dhesi" Cc: Subject: RE: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS S Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 10:37:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=SHA1; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_01BFB746.8F44AEA0" In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01BFB746.8F44AEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have one very simple problem with this suggestion. And that is the ncurses dialogs are a pain in the ass if you are trying to do things that don't require user intervention. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but _I_ happen to do things such as "make fetch" in a given dir to grab a bunch of tarballs. When it runs into a port that pops up a ncurses dialog it just sits there until I happen to come back to consol and see it. This is a HUGE PITA to me. If someone is going to implement a "ncurses" dialog on every other port than there needs to be a defacto way to bypass that and go with the defaults. -- Chris -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of R Joseph Wright Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:31 PM To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS S On Mon, 1 May 2000, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > Will Andrews writes: > > >The QtGL extensions aren't absolutely necessary, but in the package I'd > >like to support as much as possible. Which is why I haven't gotten > >around to making GL support an option in the port. (That, and time is a > >luxury.) > > I know that time is a luxury, which is why I have the 5-minute solution > for you and for every other ports mainteriner. > > Add a section to the Makefile that goes something like this: > > ## DEPENDENCIES > ## This ports depends on xxx, yyy, zzz. > ## xxx is used for . It's not essential. Default is off. > ## To enable xxx, uncomment the next line. > # = > ## yyy is used for . This is quite important and should > ## be left in. However, the port will build without it. Default is on. > ## To disable yyy, comment out the next line. > = > ## zzz is essential and must not be removed. > = > ## END DEPENDENCIES Even better, but more difficult to implement, would be a little ncurses dialog box that pops up after the person building the port enters "make". Some ports already have this, offhand I can name ghostscript and rsaref. It makes things easier for the person who doesn't know they can alter the makefiles or doesn't feel comfortable doing so. 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