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Gerard wrote:
> On November 12, 2007 at 03:14PM RW wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>> Yes, but that doesn't work if you are doing a portupgrade -a, you then
>> need to wrap the makes in a simple script, which is what I was referring
>> to. Portmaster has something like this built-in.
> 
> From man PORTUPGRADE(1):

and my (twofold) point is that (1) this removes all real choices from 
the user, and (2) there is a perfectly good method that allows one to 
keep their own options, and still get all the good points of batch 
processing.