Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry
I started flame war
Rob Lytle
jan6146 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 04:38:54 UTC 2008
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <
stephen at math.missouri.edu> wrote:
> Rob Lytle wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> The sysinstall dependency problem has existed for 10 years, so I doubt
>> that
>> its unique to me. It has occurred in every installation I have ever done.
>>
>> I use portupgrade for all ports.
>>
>> i strongly disagree with using ports for huge packages. I don't have the
>> time to waste compiling. Plus, you are presented with numerous nag
>> screens
>> so you have to babysit the whole process.
>>
>
> You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into
> /etc/make.conf. (Not that this negates your other points.)
What the hell does "yes" mean? That all option boxes are checked, or none
at all? I have never seen this explained anywhere.
Rob
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