Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu Cc: rhwang@bigpanda.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q]: How to handle ports which have optional X Windows components? Message-ID: <199610092221.PAA16706@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610090654.XAA07942@relay.nuxi.com> (obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu)
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* It is easy to detect if X11 exists on the system you * are building on. The big problem is the *package*. If Satoshi/JHK is * using X11 on the build machine (highly likely), then your port build your * port with X11. If some poor user w/o X11 installs the package of your * port, then it wont work for them. At this point, I belive I will have * two ports vim and gvim. I've been burned by the package wanting X11 when * I was installing on a small box w/o the RAM for X11. I agree with that. It will also make my life easier (to build both packages). :) Satoshi
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