interactive ports - the plague

[RW]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500
Wesley Shields <wxs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +0000, RW wrote:

> > IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to
> > fetch them manually from the websites, where you have to agree to
> > the terms, they aren't actually interactive.  
> 
> While true there are at least two ports which are interactive beyond
> OPTIONS and license things.
> 
> I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in
> /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
> 
> security/tripwire asks some setup questions during the post-install.
> 
> I don't recall how BATCH affects these two ports, if at all.


tripwire is marked as interactive, so it wont build. I'm not sure about
postfix. does it prompt on upgrades too?