From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 17:30:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83BD16A41F; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:30:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jtrigg@spamcop.net) Received: from argent.heraldsnet.org (argent.heraldsnet.org [64.83.41.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B6B43D48; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:30:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jtrigg@spamcop.net) Received: from mail.scadian.net (localhost.scadian.net [127.0.0.1]) by argent.heraldsnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D21C967; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:30:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 128.222.32.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user blaise) by mail.scadian.net with HTTP; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:30:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <27100.128.222.32.10.1126805405.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> In-Reply-To: <54489.128.222.32.10.1126804589.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> References: <200509132211.j8DMBYpj090708@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050915173655.308a168d.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20050915155710.GX64690@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200509151817.58927.lofi@freebsd.org> <54489.128.222.32.10.1126804589.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:30:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jim Trigg" To: "Jim Trigg" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: ports@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, parv@pair.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel Makefile pkg-plist ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel/files patch-configure X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:30:07 -0000 On Thu, September 15, 2005 1:16 pm, Jim Trigg wrote: > On Thu, September 15, 2005 12:17 pm, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >> Well, it doesn't really do much more than that. Some ports want user >> interaction and instead try some default action if BATCH is set. There's >> also the variant where a port could insist on user interaction by >> setting >> IS_INTERACTIVE, then defining BATCH would skip this port altogether. The >> first variety is pretty rare and I cannot remember any port of the >> second >> right now. > > One example of the second is mail/ecartis, which asks whether to create a > user and a group. I think that it would be better if IS_INTERACTIVE were > only set on initial install (or if the user and group did not already > exist), but I'm not the maintainer... Having searched the ports collection, there are a total of 97 ports which set IS_INTERACTIVE. Jim