Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:41:38 +0300 From: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] dialog4ports does not popup anymore only for global options Message-ID: <51B1B8E2.1070104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130607101758.GF35160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130607081210.GD35160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51B1A5D8.8070906@gmail.com> <20130607094227.GE35160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51B1B2D5.8020901@gmail.com> <20130607101758.GF35160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> So, again, what are my options if I don't want dependencies to be pulled >> in silently? > > You have no options and you never had one in the ports tree sorry. Previously maintainers could decide to show dialog with only DOCS or not to show it. They didn't do it consistently, of course. Probably because no guidelines where established. > If you have a way to implement that cleanly, I'll be happy to push such features > in the ports but really I see a way to do what you ask for. We could provide 'OPTIONS_DEFINE_SILENT' for ports that don't want to spam the users with dialogs, but still want to provide the options. Or a separate flag, like 'OPTIONS_ARE_SILENT'.
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