Many ports interactively prompt for various configuration options when installing. This is both annoying and time consuming. Fortunately, it can also be avoided.

`make config-recursive` interactively prompts users for options prior to `make install` or `make package-recursive`. This, however, is still interactive. Alternatively, one could add ‘-DBATCH’ to the command and install or create packages accepting default configuration options.

The following examples install and create packages including dependencies, respectively. In the second example, packages will be written to /usr/ports/packages if it exists.

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/puppet
# make -DBATCH install

or

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/puppet
# make -DBATCH package-recursive