Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:05:26 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default? Message-ID: <20130523160526.3a05607f@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <20130523135851.GM32935@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20130523054541.GH96836@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20130523135851.GM32935@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Thu, 23 May 2013 15:58:52 +0200 Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:45:42AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin 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 am strongly against it. Firstly, it's against POLA, secondly, while > it hides complexity of the ports system it also hides its biggest > advantage. > You'll never know which knobs the ports you want to build offer and > new users will never find out how to build an Apache web server with > PHP support. > > My proposal get rid of the nagging NLS and DOCS window, ask the user > initially if they want NLS and DOCS and enable/disable it globally. > Second, encourage the use of portmaster to install new ports, which > recursively displays the OPTIONS dialog and does this much faster than > make config-recursive. > That way you can set/unset all OPTIONS, go to bed and don't find an > unanswered dialog in the next morning. > > Lars > I agree with Lars. -- Michael Gmelin
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