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Date:      Sat, 6 May 2000 10:37:15 -0400
From:      "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
To:        "R Joseph Wright" <rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org>, "Rahul Dhesi" <dhesi@rahul.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS S
Message-ID:  <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIKEDPCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005011526360.6783-100000@manatee.mammalia.org>
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I have one very simple problem with this suggestion.  And that is the
ncurses dialogs are a pain in the ass if you are trying to do things that
don't require user intervention.  I'm sure I'm in the minority, but _I_
happen to do things such as "make fetch" in a given dir to grab a bunch of
tarballs.  When it runs into a port that pops up a ncurses dialog it just
sits there until I happen to come back to consol and see it.  This is a
HUGE PITA to me.

If someone is going to implement a "ncurses" dialog on every other port
than there needs to be a defacto way to bypass that and go with the
defaults.


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Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of R Joseph Wright
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:31 PM
To: Rahul Dhesi
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS S


On Mon, 1 May 2000, Rahul Dhesi wrote:

> Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> writes:
>
> >The QtGL extensions aren't absolutely necessary, but in the package I'd
> >like to support as much as possible. Which is why I haven't gotten
> >around to making GL support an option in the port. (That, and time is a
> >luxury.)
>
> I know that time is a luxury, which is why I have the 5-minute solution
> for you and for every other ports mainteriner.
>
> Add a section to the Makefile that goes something like this:
>
>    ## DEPENDENCIES
>    ## This ports depends on xxx, yyy, zzz.
>    ## xxx is used for <purpose>.  It's not essential.  Default is off.
>    ## To enable xxx, uncomment the next line.
>    #<symbol> = <rhs>
>    ## yyy is used for <purpose>.  This is quite important and should
>    ## be left in.  However, the port will build without it.  Default is
on.
>    ## To disable yyy, comment out the next line.
>    <symbol> = <rhs>
>    ## zzz is essential and must not be removed.
>    <symbol> = <rhs>
>    ## END DEPENDENCIES

Even better, but more difficult to implement, would be a little ncurses
dialog box that pops up after the person building the port enters
"make".  Some ports already have this, offhand I can name ghostscript and
rsaref.  It makes things easier for the person who doesn't know they can
alter the makefiles or doesn't feel comfortable doing so.




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