2.4.0 Annoyance

[Joshua Root]

There's also a new macports.conf setting, ui_interactive.

- Josh

On 2017-1-28 18:56 , Sterling Smith wrote:
> I would also classify the questions as annoyances, and I found that there is a new flag "-N" to avoid these questions.
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> -Sterling
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> On Jan 27, 2017, at 7:31PM, Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:
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>> In doing a selfupdate followed by an upgrade outdated, I got this:
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>> [...]
>> --->  Computing dependencies for wine
>> The following dependencies will be installed:
>> gstreamer1
>> gstreamer1-gst-plugins-base
>> libpcap
>> Continue? [Y/n]:
>> [...]
>>
>> While asking about installing dependencies is a good thing in general, in
>> this case the dependencies were already installed (which is probably
>> almost always the case with "upgrade outdated").
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>> In this case, the "upgrade" of the dependencies wasn't even due to new
>> versions - it was just a change in the "universal" variants.  Although
>> asking before switching variants might make sense, in that case it should
>> be more informative about what it's actually proposing to change.
>>
>> Fred Wright
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