Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:02 -0800 From: "Mark D. Foster" <mark@foster.cc> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs Message-ID: <47387BCA.6080604@foster.cc> In-Reply-To: <47387891.2060007@unsane.co.uk> References: <2852884D-270A-4879-B960-C10A602E080E@ashleymoran.me.uk> <47387891.2060007@unsane.co.uk>
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Vince wrote: > Ashley Moran wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI >> configuration for some ports? Simply put, they drive me up the wall. >> I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to a big install >> to find it hanging on a config screen. Possibly I'm missing something. >> > I agree though, I often suffer the same problem, coming back after a few > hours to a build that should have finished to find its sitting on the > first dependency. > Maybe it's been suggested before (in which case I add my vote) but a timeout mechanism would solve this... give the user 10s to provide a keypress else bailout and use the "default" options. -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP <mark@foster.cc> http://mark.foster.cc/
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