Not to mention, as a novice, I've discovered that for 20-60% of all ports, messing with the defaults makes the port fail to build....
Steve On Nov 12, 2007 8:26 AM, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI > configuration for some ports? Simply put, they drive me up the > wall. I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to a big > install to find it hanging on a config screen. Possibly I'm missing > something. > > The apache22 port is the latest one to join this crowd, although > there is an option to skip the GUI. I'm much happier using > WITH_PROXY_MODULES or whatever, and managing everything in > pkgtools.conf. > > What is the best way to pre-configure GUI-configured ports? For > example, if I want to script an installation of several ports. > > I've seen this: <http://www.freshports.org/misc/dotfile/>, is it what > I'm after? > > Thanks for any advice > Ashley > > > -- > > blog @ http://aviewfromafar.net/ > linked-in @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > currently @ work > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
