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

[Michael Gmelin]

On Thu, 23 May 2013 15:58:52 +0200
Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:45:42AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > 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
> 
> I am strongly against it. Firstly, it's against POLA, secondly, while
> it hides complexity of the ports system it also hides its biggest
> advantage.
> You'll never know which knobs the ports you want to build offer and
> new users will never find out how to build an Apache web server with
> PHP support.
> 
> My proposal get rid of the nagging NLS and DOCS window, ask the user
> initially if they want NLS and DOCS and enable/disable it globally.
> Second, encourage the use of portmaster to install new ports, which
> recursively displays the OPTIONS dialog and does this much faster than
> make config-recursive.
> That way you can set/unset all OPTIONS, go to bed and don't find an
> unanswered dialog in the next morning.
> 
> Lars
> 

I agree with Lars.

-- 
Michael Gmelin