How to make a make install without questions?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:10:29 +0200
"TooMany Secrets" <toomany at toomany.net> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Excuse me if this is a estupid question, but in six years with
> FreeBSD, today I haven't still an answer to this:
> - If I make a "make install clean", in a port like "x11/kde3", are
> there any way to make the lack of questions? Or maybe better, are
> there any way to make anything like "make -y (or -Y for YES options)
> install clean"?
> 
> The trouble is ports like KDE, with platform independency (more or
> less cpu power), take more time because you need to stay (more or
> less) in front of computer to choose and accept the port options.
> I understand that you don't need this with other ports (like apache,
> php, etc), for obvious reasons. But I think that with ports like
> gnome2 or kde3, maybe I believe that it would be a great saving of
> time.
> 
> Sorry if the question is understandable for my bad english.

`make config-recursive` in the port's directory will help, except for
ports that choose not to implement OPTIONS but their own custom script
(poking their maintainers might be a .. useful idea).


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