interactive ports - the plague

Wesley Shields wxs at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 3 20:28:50 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:01:00PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wesley Shields wrote:
> 
>> I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in
>> /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
> 
> I'll take that as a bug report :-)

I didn't intend for that to be a bug report.  :)

> Though I'm not sure which way it should default, on BATCH.  And does BATCH 
> apply to package install as well?

Honestly, I have not put much thought into it.  I was just pointing out
that some ports require post-installation questions to be answered.

Thanks for your work on postfix, it's always just worked for me.

-- WXS


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