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Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague
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Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote:
> 
>> I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in
>> /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
> 
> I'll take that as a bug report :-)
> 
> Though I'm not sure which way it should default, on BATCH.  And does 
> BATCH apply to package install as well?

I think the usual way is to mention in pkg-message what aught to be done 
instead of offering to do it.