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Subject: Re: port make options
From: Craig Boston <craig@meoqu.gank.org>
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Sorry for jumping in, this is just a minor pet peeve of mine.  I use
MAKE_ARGS a lot for portupgrade, but what about for the ones with the
stupid dialog boxes? (samba, mod_php4, etc)

Many of them assume defaults when BATCH is set and are difficult (need a
lot of \\\") or sometimes even impossible to override with environment
variables.

I have no problem with being user-friendly, but IMHO when these are put
in the port should also be automation-friendly and allow itself to be
configured with simple environment variables.

Craig

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 22:12, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> sure is..
> 
> check out /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
> 
> MAKE_ARGS section..
> 
> ajt.


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