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Subject: Re: ./options-descr file suggestion for ports
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Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
>> First there where no OPTIONS, then OPTIONS was introduced. If you feel
>> annoyed by those ports which are not converted yet to OPTIONS (because
>> nobody felt annoyed enough to convert them), feel free to submit
>> patches for them.
> 
> personally, I'm annoyed by ports that use OPTIONS because I cannot then
> set them globally in my make.conf file (which is copied around to all my
> servers).  I have to ensure that the proper OPTIONS are set on every
> machine on which I may build a port.
> 
> Is it possible (and/or is anyone working on) a way to make the options
> setting non-interactive and pull the settings from a config file instead?

Look at the ports man page:

BATCH=yes

If not options files exist the options as set in /etc/make.conf will be used.