From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 21:43:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A708016A420 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+QI=fcf86e1f@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EA013C457 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+QI=fcf86e1f@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A49CD05A3 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:43:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:43:16 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071115214316.656e279c@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <473CB387.2090100@chuckr.org> References: <2852884D-270A-4879-B960-C10A602E080E@ashleymoran.me.uk> <47387891.2060007@unsane.co.uk> <47387BCA.6080604@foster.cc> <20071112183502.438b44b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738A71A.6060100@chuckr.org> <4738ACDD.50108@u.washington.edu> <4738ADC8.2060005@gmx.de> <4738AEBF.4010109@u.washington.edu> <4738C145.2050601@chuckr.org> <20071112214240.5d3b048a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738CB99.5000807@web.de> <20071112235921.11ae8c0a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738FFC7.7000309@chuckr.org> <47394287.6050303@gmx.de> <473CA416.2040300@chuckr.org> <20071115205131.6f31ba66@gumby.homeunix.com.> <473CB387.2090100@chuckr.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:43:20 -0000 On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 Chuck Robey wrote: > I've already deleted the message that kicked me off, but it looked to > me that you were talking about the 10,000 ports I was talking about, > and that meant you were referring to new installs, not upgrades. Why would anyone want to configure ports they don't want to install? > BUT if you were talking only about upgrades, then I kinda think, > personally, that you probably should instantiated a new thread, not > used this one. Hmm? Is that supposed to irony, because before you hijacked this thread it was about preventing options screens being brought up at build-time, and pausing the build. Your ideas do absolutely nothing to address this issue because, they would only reduce the number of options, not eliminate them - unless you are intending to radically dumb-down the system. As a case in point take a look at the options for www/squid, I don't believe for a moment that your scheme could handle more than a small fraction of them. If people want an easier desktop system, they already have the pc-bsd and DesktopBSD versions of FreeBSD.