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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:10 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PATCH: Adding config-recursive to bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <20041214062110.GF1435@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20041213235917.I10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>
References:  <20041213221520.V10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <20041214043729.GE1435@k7.mavetju> <20041213235917.I10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:15:10AM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:24:38PM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote:
> >>
> >>I got tired of starting long port builds with lots of dependances 
> >>(KDE, etc.) and having many of the ports stop the whole build 
> >>process to ask me what config options I wanted.  So, I thought what 
> >>if I could easily pre-config all of the dependancies?  Here is the 
> >>result, pretty much cut & paste from the fetch-recursive bits. 
> >>Patch attached, but if it doesn't come through it is available 
> >>here:
> >
> >Shouldn't it only do this for ports which aren't installed yet?
> 
> What harm might come if the port is already installed and we create a 
> new config file for it?  All I can think of is that some of the 
> options you thought you were going to get may not be there when it is 
> all done since the port was already built, but it shouldn't break 
> anything.  At worst, you would have to re-install those ports which 
> were already installed to affect the changes you made to the config. 
> You would have had to do that anyway if it were necessary, even 
> without running this.  This just gives you an easy way to run 'make 
> config' on all the dependancies of a particular port.

There would be no harm, but it is strange to exchange one annoying
behaviour with another one: instead of having your build interrupted
to config a every new port, you have to re-config every port again.
And again. And again.

Edwin

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