Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:45:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dominik Epple <epple@tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single-Letter Port Names Message-ID: <20040421084554.GA76133@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040421082930.GA1708@axion01.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <200404192007.04848.vangyzen@stat.duke.edu> <200404192026.56856.vangyzen@stat.duke.edu> <20040420021016.GA20421@aurema.com> <200404201122.01824.vangyzen@stat.duke.edu> <20040421082930.GA1708@axion01.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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--zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:29:30AM +0200, Dominik Epple wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:22:01AM -0400, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > > > If you're reducing this to a single package, please do not have it > > > default to *any* size, but require all users to set their size by some > > > means at install or run time. An environment variable in /etc/profile > > > (or similar) should be good enough for this, and could possibly > > > benefit other ports too. >=20 > Perhaps this does not fit here, but: >=20 > One of the most annoying things that can happen when doing sth like a > "portupgrade -ra" (or similar) is when a port thinks it should ask the > user a question and therefore the machine idles for, say, worst case, > some days waiting for the user to select a paper size or whatever. >=20 > I usually do not sit in front of a computer while it is recompiling > all its packages, and when I check back and find the machine waiting > for input instead of having completed the upgrade, I am annoyed. Set the BATCH variable when you don't want to build interactive ports, then set INTERACTIVE when you're ready to go back and build the interactive ones. Kris --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhjTCWry0BWjoQKURAtW5AKCEy6FhKpBUDYgCVwef1LDSLSvwxACg5K7h iLIFUkS+1IUgOIqoqq9xD2Q= =L2e3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf--
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