Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:31 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default? Message-ID: <20130523114331.GM96836@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <807189.9206.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <807189.9206.bm@smtp119.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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--8c07nsHwQobhlezh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:08:58AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog = popping > > up all the time. >=20 > > What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each t= ime there > > is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config? >=20 > > Just a proposal, please give your opinion. >=20 > > Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change. >=20 > > regards, > > Bapt >=20 > The new dialog4ports has made the dialog much less disruptive than before= , especially when teeing to a log file. >=20 > So now I don't dread the dialog as I used to. >=20 > But it would still be good to be able to set options through make.conf, c= omparable to what pkgsrc (NetBSD and ported to other mostly Unix-like OSes)= and portage (Gentoo Linux) do. You can already: OPTIONS_SET/UNSET, vim_SET/UNSET >=20 > I have noticed how DOCS with docbook can be very cumbersome and overdone,= how many different formats do we need? >=20 > And hopefully docbook wouldn't have to be rebuilt every time for differen= t ports that might require it. >=20 > Tom >=20 --8c07nsHwQobhlezh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlGeAOMACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExlrwCfSWJ+rytja04WS+8L4jA0D0fj H8wAnRT537oy0C3KXYKdo3/sBuVFXgW+ =ZUrb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8c07nsHwQobhlezh--
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