Suggestion for GNOME upgrade script

[Adam Weinberger]

Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just ran gnome_upgrade.sh overnight and I have a suggestion for an 
> improvement.
> 
> It would be great if the script had an option not to use BATCH=yes. I am 
> a KDE user and reinstallation of the x11/kde port with BATCH=yes caused 
> some problems for me. This port, which has some GNOME dependencies and 
> therefore gets reinstalled by the script, is a meta port that installs 
> all the other parts of KDE as dependencies. When BATCH=yes is not set, 
> it presents a menu from which the KDE components one wants can be 
> chosen. With BATCH=yes, there is no menu and *all* components get 
> installed. As you undoubtedly will know, KDE is a very big project and 
> there is probably hardly anybody out there who really needs all the 
> components. For me, for example, the upgrade with BATCH=yes installed 7 
> or 8 KDE components that I normally deselect. Including the additional 
> dependencies caused by this, I ended up with more than 40 ports that I 
> had not installed before.
> 
> I realize not setting BATCH=yes means the upgrade will be interactive 
> and there will be some ports that ask questions. That is exactly what I 
> want them to do, as you can see in the example above. Maybe my 
> suggestion could help some other people with their upgrades as well.

With the script, portinstall(1)'s stdout is a file, not the console. 
There's no way to grab input from the console, and you wouldn't be able 
to see the menus. If you only need a few kde components, just install 
them and skip the kde metaport. There's no need to use the KDE metaport 
when you only want a few things from it.

# Adam


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