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Date:      18 Jun 2002 12:26:48 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Mike A. Oligny" <pandaro@freebsd.schema.ca>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: gaim-0.58
Message-ID:  <1024417608.478.28.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D0F5B03.7040108@freebsd.schema.ca>
References:   <20020616215705.58252.qmail@web10701.mail.yahoo.com>	<200206171827.29640.pan daro@freebsd.schema.ca>	<1024367709.17203.19.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200206180634.03220.mike@freebsd.schema.ca> <1024415406.313.8.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>  <3D0F5B03.7040108@freebsd.schema.ca>

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On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 12:08, Mike A. Oligny wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > You should probably familiarize yourself with a new port's Makefile.  If
> 
> And the Makefile of each dependency, quite possibly
> until I turn blue.
> 
> 
>  > you set WITHOUT_GNOME in /etc/make.conf, that will protect you from
>  > GNOME-optional ports.
> 
> Obviously I'm losing here - perhaps this really is
> a non-issue, but what about KDE ports?  X ports?
> What about in the future when there are a dozen
> things like this?  I think it would be nice to be
> able to set the other way around - things you DO
> want instead of a potentially huge exclusion list
> that requires extra effort to stay on top of.
> 
> SIMPLE_PORTS_ONLY for example - then if only the
> nasty ones refused to install when it was set...
> 
> Anyway, I'm not looking for any more preventative
> workaround methods, and repeating this `use
> WITHOUT_GNOME' over and over isn't helping me at
> all.  I was hoping for two things:  1) A generic
> way of avoiding this.  2) A way to clean up AFTER
> my DNS server has been transformed into a complete
> X Window workstation with KDE, Gnome, CUPS, and
> GhostScript.

Why did you want to install gaim on your DNS server in the first place? 

Joe

> 
> portupgrade was suggested - perhaps it will be
> one of the answers I was looking for...  now I
> just need to set up a machine to test-desecrate
> with gaim.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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