How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:36:23PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Clint Olsen, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I'm trying to build gnome which takes hours, and I want it
> backgrounded so that if this SSH shell disconnects it doesn't crater
> the build.

I've generally found screen(1) the better solution to those sort of
situations (and many, many others, for that matter).


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