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Date:      Thu, 23 May 2013 08:33:10 -0700
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > regards,
> > Bapt
>
> I would rather the current behavior remained or even better would be
> if there was a native way to queue up all the config screen like
> portupgrade does(at least it did when I last used it, it's been
> awhile).  It's not nearly as painful to answer them in bulk even if
> queue generation takes awhile.
>
> There are already two "native" ways to do this:
  make config-recursive
  use a ports management tool like portmaster/portupgrade

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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