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	Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry
 I started flame war
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Rob Lytle wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> The sysinstall dependency problem  has existed for 10 years, so I doubt that
> its unique to me.  It has occurred in every installation I have ever done.
> 
> I use portupgrade for all ports.
> 
> i strongly disagree with using ports for huge packages.  I don't have the
> time to waste compiling.  Plus, you are presented with numerous nag screens
> so you have to babysit the whole process.

You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into 
/etc/make.conf.  (Not that this negates your other points.)