From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 02:05:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122D116A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:05:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dd3.kasserver.com (dd2718.kasserver.com [81.209.184.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453C443D39 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:05:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (dsl-082-083-061-249.arcor-ip.net [82.83.61.249]) by dd3.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEBF6F332 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:05:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4234F16E.7040301@chillt.de> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:05:34 +0100 From: Bartosz Fabianowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Suggestion for GNOME upgrade script X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:05:29 -0000 Hi! I just ran gnome_upgrade.sh overnight and I have a suggestion for an improvement. It would be great if the script had an option not to use BATCH=yes. I am a KDE user and reinstallation of the x11/kde port with BATCH=yes caused some problems for me. This port, which has some GNOME dependencies and therefore gets reinstalled by the script, is a meta port that installs all the other parts of KDE as dependencies. When BATCH=yes is not set, it presents a menu from which the KDE components one wants can be chosen. With BATCH=yes, there is no menu and *all* components get installed. As you undoubtedly will know, KDE is a very big project and there is probably hardly anybody out there who really needs all the components. For me, for example, the upgrade with BATCH=yes installed 7 or 8 KDE components that I normally deselect. Including the additional dependencies caused by this, I ended up with more than 40 ports that I had not installed before. I realize not setting BATCH=yes means the upgrade will be interactive and there will be some ports that ask questions. That is exactly what I want them to do, as you can see in the example above. Maybe my suggestion could help some other people with their upgrades as well. - Bartosz