Suggestion for GNOME upgrade script

[Alexander Leidinger]

Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd at chillt.de> wrote:

> 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.

Have a look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, the "MAKE_ARGS" part. You have
to add "-DWITHOUT_foo" to MAKE_ARGS in the x11/kde3 case for option "foo" in
the menu, e.g. "-DWITHOUT_KDEGAMES" if you don't want KDEGAMES.

After this every "portupgrade kde3" will do the right thing.

Bye,
Alexander.

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