svn commit: r305288 - head/Mk

[Jan Beich]

Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:59:46PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:12:50AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:56:21AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> > > That's because OptionsNG poorly implement mutually exclusive options.  I
>> > > hope that eventually dialog's --radiolist would be utilized for proper
>> > > handling, and sane knobs names would be restored.
>> > > 
>> > > Sounds like a nice port junior hacker project.
>> > 
>> > Not hat junior dialog(1) can't mix radiolist and classic checklist that is
>> > why it doesn't use it, using libdialog(3), it would be easiy to implement,
>> > but that won't be usable for a while (until all supported version of
>> > freebsd has it.
>> 
>> Ah, OK, that explains it (lack of radiobuttons now).  Is it known what's
>> preventing all supported versions to have working libdialog(3), if we have
>> working dialog(1) already?
>> 
>> ./danfe
>
> new dialog is only on 9.x and 10.x, if will require to code some special
> dialog(1) dedicated for ports, MFCing libdialog to 8 and 7 is complicated
> because the API isn't compatible.

Why not add devel/cdialog to bootstrap on < 9.0 and install it only when
BATCH is not set?

>
> regards,
> Bapt