On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:32:20AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Lars Engels <lars.eng...@0x20.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:45:42AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > 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 > > > > I am strongly against it. Firstly, it's against POLA, secondly, while it > > hides complexity of the ports system it also hides its biggest > > advantage. > > You'll never know which knobs the ports you want to build offer and new > > users will never find out how to build an Apache web server with PHP > > support. > > > > My proposal get rid of the nagging NLS and DOCS window, ask the user > > initially if they want NLS and DOCS and enable/disable it globally. > > Second, encourage the use of portmaster to install new ports, which > > recursively displays the OPTIONS dialog and does this much faster than > > make config-recursive. > > That way you can set/unset all OPTIONS, go to bed and don't find an > > unanswered dialog in the next morning. > > > > I agree. The dialog needs to appear if there are no saved options for the > port (thus saving the options). And it needs to appear if the list of > options has changed or if the defaults have changed from what's saved in > /var/db/ports/. > > If the defaults are the same as what's saved in /var/db/ports/ then the > options window does not need to appear. > > IOW, the way the ports tree worked before we lost the ability to set things > globally in /etc/make.conf (although it appears a convoluted hack has been > added to make this work).
We never lost the ability to set globally in make.conf just a new consistent way has been added.
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