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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:40:28 +0100
From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
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Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague
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RW wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100
> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> 
>> RW wrote:
>>> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100
>>> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
>>>
> 
>>>> I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters'
>>>> Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one.
>>> Setting BATCH is supposed to prevent genuinely interactive ports
>>> from building (that's actually the original purpose of BATCH).
>> But this will also keep the config screens away from me, which can be
>> handled before all builds quite comfortably.
> 
> Not if you do the config screens before setting BATCH.

True, I suppose my make.conf will get a couple of new .if blocks.