Re: automated installs and some ports

It was a beautiful Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:43, when Marc Espie said:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:05:19PM +0100, franciszek holop wrote:
> > as i am going thru stuff i notice that some ports
> > try to be civilised and use the pager to show info
> > about the port.  but in bulk installs like this it stops
> > the process.
> > 
> > so what should be the policy here?  maybe it would be nice
> > to start an install and go for a coffee, so if no errors
> > are present every package would be at its place....
> > 
> > or can i just set the $PAGER to something phony?
> 
> This is a known issue. This won't be changed for OpenBSD 3.5, but yes,
> I know we can do something better there.

Many ports use INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts that echo all the important 
stuff instead of using MESSAGE.
No $PAGER involved, seems good to me.

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