Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:49:52 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>, will@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/30294: Can't unlock KDE Message-ID: <20010904074952.A30764@curie.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <01090403430201.19266@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:43:02AM -0400 References: <20010904091704.O27939-100000@server.nomadiclab.com> <01090403430201.19266@i8k.babbleon.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:43:02AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger (bts@babbleon.org) wrote: > In general, somehow gathering up "critical messages" might be a nice feature > for ports. Yes, I agree. I'm sympathetic with Martti's position and wish there was a useful solution. However, there just isn't one. The only way to solve this problem would be for bsd.port.mk to check for PKGMESSAGE files in each port that is installed, and when the install operation for any of them is done, announce them to the user at the end of the entire operation. It's not all black and white, unfortunately. Sometimes people are just doing a "make configure" and suddenly this other thing is a dependency. Oops, now we have a 20-line pkg-message for that other thing that's now a dependency. It'll scroll the configure target on the previous port, etc... choices, choices.. > In this case, the default results from the install are (IMHO) particularly > useless, though, so perhaps instead of it just being a pkg-message, the port > could actually stop and prompt the user for a decision about whether or not > to chmod or, at least prompt him to acknowledge that he saw the message? That's another problem. Lots of people (including myself) already take it for granted that when you run a "make install" it will not prompt you for this sort of thing. We'd have to set the IS_INTERACTIVE bit on a lot more ports than we had previously... -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010904074952.A30764>