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Date:      Thu, 23 May 2013 09:17:00 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?
Message-ID:  <CA%2BtpaK2tB=Xteo2y7C80AMf2mwGxPCS3PNGHFLR1oJ21FBEcSw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130523054541.GH96836@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20130523054541.GH96836@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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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.


--
Adam Vande More



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