Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:04:47PM +0100, Jörn Clausen wrote: >> What is the general stance of pkgsrc on this issue? Should >> PKGSRC_RUN_TEST still result in an uninterrupted build? I usually use >> "pkg_chk -k" and look at the failed packages later. Put differently: >> Is this worth a PR against lang/php56, or is this the intended >> behavior? > > At the very least, a build with _BATCH defined must be non-interactive. > Whether a non-batch build should be non-interactive is a bit more open > for discussion, but I generally don't see a reason for it to be. If it > is, it must be added to INTERACTIVE_STAGES or whatever the name was. I realize this is just discussing the defaults, but my take is that a software build being interactice is just plain broken, and that pkgsrc should default to non-interactive unless some affirmative permission to interact has been granted. (I think this is what you more or less hinted at, but I have stated it more confrontationally ;-)
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