Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague Message-ID: <20080303172750.GB65151@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20080303170457.02959c09@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <47CBC3C5.9050007@bsdforen.de> <20080303155354.2043d131@gumby.homeunix.com.> <47CC26F3.7020709@cyberbotx.com> <20080303170457.02959c09@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:27:31 -0500 > Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> wrote: > > > RW wrote: > > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100 > > > Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: > > > > > >> I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with > > >> them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or > > >> portconfig-recursive from bsdadminscripts. > > >> > > >> But I find ports like ghostscript-gpl that open an ncurses dialogue > > >> between configure and build stage very annoying. > > > > > > Setting BATCH is supposed to prevent genuinely interactive ports > > > from building (that's actually the original purpose of BATCH). > > > I believe a good example of what he might be talking about is the jdk > > ports. Because of the licensing of those ports, they will bring up an > > EULA that you need to read and then type "yes" afterwards. Even with > > BATCH set, it still stops at that EULA. > > IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to > fetch them manually from the websites, where you have to agree to the > terms, they aren't actually interactive. While true there are at least two ports which are interactive beyond OPTIONS and license things. I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. security/tripwire asks some setup questions during the post-install. I don't recall how BATCH affects these two ports, if at all. -- WXS
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