From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 3 20:42:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA05718 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05713 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <19031(1)>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:41:35 PST Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177711>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:41:25 -0800 To: Michael Smith cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 96 04:15:16 PST." <199612031215.WAA10358@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 20:41:14 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Dec3.204125pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199612031215.WAA10358@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> you write: >Oh gee, he doesn't want much, does he? 8) I bet you want more than >"spawn an xterm with 'make foo' in it" too, don't you? For non-interactive ports, it'd be much nicer to just create a text widget into which you put the output of the command you spawned asyncrhonously. (This is actually really easy, code upon request). However, I've never tried to do an interactive shell this way. >Speaking of 'clean', is it desired behaviour for 'clean' to purge all >ports that are prequisites for a given port? That's a real pain for >something like 'apsfilter' which depend on half the known universe 8( You can define NOCLEANDEPENDS to make it not do this. bsd.port.mk pretty much has a variable for every behavior =) Bill