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Date:      Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:51:07 -1000
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@tormail.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r305288 - head/Mk
Message-ID:  <1TLidW-000EbL-Lp@internal.tormail.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121009161009.GF8713@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> (Baptiste Daroussin's message of "Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:10:09 %2B0200")
References:  <201210042257.q94MvjeY039394@svn.freebsd.org> <20121005202842.GA64496@FreeBSD.org> <20121006080539.GB30675@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <5070A018.9010302@FreeBSD.org> <20121008035621.GA91369@FreeBSD.org> <20121008061249.GA47691@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20121009155946.GA70759@FreeBSD.org> <20121009161009.GF8713@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:59:46PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:12:50AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:56:21AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> > > That's because OptionsNG poorly implement mutually exclusive options.  I
>> > > hope that eventually dialog's --radiolist would be utilized for proper
>> > > handling, and sane knobs names would be restored.
>> > > 
>> > > Sounds like a nice port junior hacker project.
>> > 
>> > Not hat junior dialog(1) can't mix radiolist and classic checklist that is
>> > why it doesn't use it, using libdialog(3), it would be easiy to implement,
>> > but that won't be usable for a while (until all supported version of
>> > freebsd has it.
>> 
>> Ah, OK, that explains it (lack of radiobuttons now).  Is it known what's
>> preventing all supported versions to have working libdialog(3), if we have
>> working dialog(1) already?
>> 
>> ./danfe
>
> new dialog is only on 9.x and 10.x, if will require to code some special
> dialog(1) dedicated for ports, MFCing libdialog to 8 and 7 is complicated
> because the API isn't compatible.

Why not add devel/cdialog to bootstrap on < 9.0 and install it only when
BATCH is not set?

>
> regards,
> Bapt



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