From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 05:33:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15791106567D for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 05:33:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-nospam@yaxom.com) Received: from gw.yaxom.com (gw.yaxom.com [59.167.217.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC198FC15 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 05:33:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-nospam@yaxom.com) Received: (qmail 86533 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2008 15:06:21 +1000 Received: from joker.yaxom.com (172.16.1.10) by iliad.yaxom.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2008 15:06:21 +1000 Received: (qmail 49491 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Jul 2008 15:06:21 +1000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:06:21 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Rob Lytle References: <784966050807022128g6a6ebfebtc1f57c0da66779bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080703215537.6F3114504E@ptavv.es.net> <784966050807032126m69eedb98nf0ccaed548fc96ef@mail.gmail.com> <486DA7FC.8050304@math.missouri.edu> <784966050807032138g7ed2da8chf15f185a6a6bf302@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <784966050807032138g7ed2da8chf15f185a6a6bf302@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i; gjb-muttsend.sh 1.7 2004-10-05 X-Uptime: 98 days X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.yaxom.com/gjb.html X-Blog: http://www.yaxom.com/gjb/blog/ X-Image-URL: http://www.yaxom.com/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-Request-PGP: http://www.yaxom.com/keys/4B04B7D6.asc X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:52:20 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:33:05 -0000 On 2008-07-03, Rob Lytle wrote: > > You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into > > /etc/make.conf. (Not that this negates your other points.) > > What the hell does "yes" mean? That all option boxes are checked, or none > at all? I have never seen this explained anywhere. Instead of all this vociferous whining, how about just doing a bit of reading of the documentation? The ports(7) page might be a place to start.