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On 09/06/2006, at 9:23 AM, Randy Pratt wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:35:42 -0400
> Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have never been prompted twice for a given set of
>> options.  I do, at times, get prompted for the options
>> of one port, answer that screen and walk away, only to
>> later see that I was also prompted for the options of
>> some other port.
>
> I got tired of these silent screens and added an audible sound
> warning to /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk :
>
> --- Mk/bsd.port.mk.original   Mon May 29 22:04:13 2006
> +++ Mk/bsd.port.mk   Mon May 29 22:06:06 2006
> @@ -5281,6 +5281,7 @@
>       shift 3; \
>    done; \
>    TMPOPTIONSFILE=$$(mktemp -t portoptions); \
> +  /usr/local/bin/play /home/rpratt/sounds/montymes.wav; \
>    trap "${RM} -f $${TMPOPTIONSFILE}; exit 1" 1 2 3 5 10 13 15; \
>    ${SH} -c "${DIALOG} --checklist \"Options for ${PKGNAME:C/-([^-] 
> +)$/
> \1/}\" 21 70 15 $${DEFOPTIONS} 2> $${TMPOPTIONSFILE}"; \
>    status=$$?; \
>
> It has to be patched each time the ports tree is cvsupped and it
> may not be the best place to do it but it seems to work (for me).
>
> It could be much better written with a call to an external script
> with more options and eliminate hard-coded values.  It probably
> causes ozone depletion and other scary things.  YMMV.
>
> I'm almost sure something like this will never get officially added
> since its probably considered bloat.  At least I'm not wasting
> hours of build time not knowing I need to push a button.

Some terminal programs have a "monitor for silence" function which  
can produce an audible alert.  KDE's terminal could do it last time I  
looked.  I can't recall any others.