interactive ports - the plague

[RW]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:55:52 +0100
Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:

> RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:21 +0100
> > Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> > 

> >> I cannot find any policy on interactive ports in the Porters'
> >> Handbook. Maybe there aught to be one.
> > 
> > Setting BATCH is supposed to prevent genuinely interactive ports
> > from building (that's actually the original purpose of BATCH).
> 
> But this will also keep the config screens away from me, which can be
> handled before all builds quite comfortably.

Not if you do the config screens before setting BATCH.