Ports with GUI configs

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Chuck Robey wrote:
> RW wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100
>> Tino Engel <elrap at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> RW schrieb:
>>>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500
>>>> Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>> I hope not.  We really need to move this out of being a ports
>>>>> buildtime thing.  Currently, to build ports in batch either
>>>>> requires someone to be chained to the computer, so as to intercept
>>>>> all those screens, or to simply agree to install everything, with
>>>>> no inpput whatever.     
>>>> That's not correct, you can run make config-conditional or  make
>>>> config-recursive anytime you like.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> But not on a portupgrade... I don't want to run config-recursive on
>>> the whole ports tree though....
>>
>> It's not hard to script it though, something like the following would do
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> for p in `pkg_version -ol'<' |awk '{ print $1 }'`; do
>>  cd  /usr/ports/${p} && make config-recursive done
> 
> I can't believe you actually suggested this.  First thing, it would take
> you HOURS to complete, and you better not make even one mistake, 'cause
> you couldn't even go back far enough to figure out what the name was of
> the port you muffed.  Beyond that, since most ports ask questions formed
> with the name of the target dependency, aznd not asking things like "do
> you want such-and-such capability", so you have to be conversant with
> the names and capabilities of nearly 10,000 ports, to be able to do that
> job.

It will only operate on 10000 ports if you have 10000 ports installed and a
majority of them is outdated.

I'm of the impression that you don't really know what the commands do you're
shown here and come to ridiculous conclusions because of this.