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On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 06:34:15 +0000
Thomas Mueller wrote:


> It was very disconcerting when I would do a massive portupgrade
> before going to bed and subsequently find portupgrade stopped for an
> options dialog. 

FWIW portupgrade has a -c option to avoid that.