Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:15:58 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org>, Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS S Message-ID: <20000509101557.A49564@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIKEDPCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>; from cjm2@earthling.net on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 10:37:15AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005011526360.6783-100000@manatee.mammalia.org> <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIKEDPCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
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On Sat 2000-05-06 (10:37), C J Michaels wrote: > I have one very simple problem with this suggestion. And that is the > ncurses dialogs are a pain in the ass if you are trying to do things that > don't require user intervention. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but _I_ > happen to do things such as "make fetch" in a given dir to grab a bunch of > tarballs. When it runs into a port that pops up a ncurses dialog it just > sits there until I happen to come back to consol and see it. This is a > HUGE PITA to me. Set BATCH, since that is what it is for. portconf respects BATCH, obviously. > If someone is going to implement a "ncurses" dialog on every other port > than there needs to be a defacto way to bypass that and go with the > defaults. Of course, that's why you need a defacto way to describe options. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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