[CFT] New dialog for ports

[David Demelier]

2013/3/20 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:39:14AM +0000, Steve Wills wrote:
>> On 03/14/13 09:55, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports
>> > tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1)
>> > designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng.
>> >
>> > It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able to deal
>> > with both normal and radio options in the same window.
>> >
>> > dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be updated and get
>> > support for new features on all supported arches at the same time.
>> >
>> > It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent libdialog in
>> > base (read 8.x)
>> >
>> > dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be able to
>> > print a human readable help text if possible.
>> >
>> > Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by default.
>> > What it does is:
>> > When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the ports
>> > tree will install dialog4ports first.
>> >
>> > New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port
>> > directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et propose
>> > him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file
>> >
>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff
>> >
>> > Please test!
>>
>> I didn't get a chance to test this before it was committed, but I'm
>> currently running into this:
>>
>>
>> % pwd
>> /usr/local/tinderbox/portstrees/FreeBSD/ports/www/apache22
>> % sudo make config
>> dialog4ports isn't installed, do you want to install it now? [Y/n] n
>> env: /usr/local/bin/dialog4ports: No such file or directory
>> ===> Options unchanged
>> %
>>
>> And I'm prompted every time. Is this how it's supposed to work?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
> I wonder if it is worth to let the question to install dialog4ports.
>
> I mean dialog4ports being mandatory you should just be installed directly
> doesn't it?
>
> anyone have an opinion about this?
>
> I will remove the question on 27/03 if I got more please do than please don't at
> that time.
>

If the user does not want dialogs at all then it should write
something like NO_DIALOG=yes in the /etc/make.conf., otherwise we
assume that the user *wants* the dialog so the question is just
no-sense for me (and for much people I guess).

So please just remove it as it's a normal dependency of the port tree.

> regards,
> Bapt



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Demelier David