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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2013 10:43:38 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Matthias Andree <mandree@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1tdfGKV6C8jEO9Sg-J64TpA8RXQ6XT7MV25Pmwi=dU=Eg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Matthias Andree <mandree@freebsd.org>wrot=
e:

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> Am 23.05.2013 07:45, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:
> > hi,
> >
> > A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog
> popping
> > up all the time.
> >
> > What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each
> time there
> > is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config?
> >
> > Just a proposal, please give your opinion.
> >
> > Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change.
>
> This would subvert the whole options story.
>
> I propose to not show the dialog for standard options, such as DOCS (n=C3=
=A9e
> PORTDOCS), EXAMPLES, NLS and thereabouts.
>
> And IF we show-on-changed, we need to highlight the changed options and
> place the cursor on the first displayed one, to not waste everybody's tim=
e.
>

YES! I get tired of looking through the looooong list of options for ports
like ffmpeg or apache trying to spot the change! Some highlight or visible
flag would be very nice.

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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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