Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:08:58AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration dialog popping
> > up all the time.
> 
> > What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each time there
> > is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type make config?
> 
> > Just a proposal, please give your opinion.
> 
> > Of course make config-recursive behaviour won't change.
> 
> > regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> The new dialog4ports has made the dialog much less disruptive than before, especially when teeing to a log file.
> 
> So now I don't dread the dialog as I used to.
> 
> But it would still be good to be able to set options through make.conf, comparable to what pkgsrc (NetBSD and ported to other mostly Unix-like OSes) and portage (Gentoo Linux) do.

You can already: OPTIONS_SET/UNSET, vim_SET/UNSET

> 
> I have noticed how DOCS with docbook can be very cumbersome and overdone, how many different formats do we need?
> 
> And hopefully docbook wouldn't have to be rebuilt every time for different ports that might require it.
> 
> Tom
> 
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