On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:08:58AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog > > popping > > up all the time. > > > What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each time > > there > > is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config? > > > Just a proposal, please give your opinion. > > > Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change. > > > regards, > > Bapt > > The new dialog4ports has made the dialog much less disruptive than before, > especially when teeing to a log file. > > So now I don't dread the dialog as I used to. > > But it would still be good to be able to set options through make.conf, > comparable to what pkgsrc (NetBSD and ported to other mostly Unix-like OSes) > and portage (Gentoo Linux) do.
You can already: OPTIONS_SET/UNSET, vim_SET/UNSET > > I have noticed how DOCS with docbook can be very cumbersome and overdone, how > many different formats do we need? > > And hopefully docbook wouldn't have to be rebuilt every time for different > ports that might require it. > > Tom >
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