Yesterday was announced an important change to define the options for ports in /usr/ports/UPDATING:
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Code:
[CMD]% less +/20130614 /usr/ports/UPDATING[/CMD]
20130614:
AFFECTS: users who set port options in make.conf
AUTHOR: [email]tijl@FreeBSD.org[/email]
Configuring options in make.conf using variables like OPTIONS_SET and
OPTIONS_UNSET now also suppresses the option dialog for those options.
This means that when building a port the option dialog will only appear if
there are truly new options that have not been configured before using either
the dialog or make.conf. This allows you to set options like DOCS, NLS,
X11, etc. once for all ports and not have option dialogs pop up if those are
the only options. For a list of variables you can set in make.conf to
control options see Mk/bsd.options.mk.
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