On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:50AM, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote:
> On 2017-01-03 17:47, Sterling Smith wrote: >> I did search `man port`, but I had not added my custom install's >> MANPATH. > > MANPATH is supposed to be empty, as man(1) will then deduce the paths > from the PATH environment variable. Good to know. > >> Note that the use of the phrase "non-interactive mode" for this >> switch is in contradiction to the documentation of the command >> argument, which it claims if I give the command argument, then I am >> not in interactive mode already... Also, searching for "yes" in the >> man page yields nothing. I will provide a pull request with my >> suggestion for improvements to the description. > > Indeed, the documentation is misleading. "Interactive mode" is the port > shell you get when you launch port(1) without arguments. The -N flag is > supposed to avoid any questions to the user. These two things need to > have distinct names. > > In order not to break existing documentation, the -N flag should rather > be called something like "no-questions mode". We should also rename the > ui_interactive option in macports.conf accordingly. I have made suggestions in https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/14 . I suggest any interested parties should comment there (as Rainer has) to continue the conversation. > > Rainer -Sterling
