From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Oct 3 14:15:06 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29279AF370F for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:15:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0267DAA for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:15:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout08 with smtp id r2Br1t0031mJoLY012BsMd; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:11:52 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=YqpNfMQX c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=MKtGQD3n3ToA:10 a=ZZnuYtJkoWoA:10 a=CH0kA5CcgfcA:10 a=dik7HMQjudEA:10 a=op4IaPQSAAAA:8 a=-n1rxa2Ekm0HXLbGrUsA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=-qDygF72zVwDer5orv5c:22 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1br3y9-0000xA-1o for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:11:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:11:48 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20161003151148.4860ca1a@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <19d248ae-8919-fdc9-84e8-ff90ae761e6f@gjunka.com> References: <2df71272-7b98-ad73-650a-3ec70beb71d5@freebsd.org> <19d248ae-8919-fdc9-84e8-ff90ae761e6f@gjunka.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: dependency explosions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:15:06 -0000 On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:11:43 +0000 Grzegorz Junka wrote: > Shouldn't all packages default to noX dependencies? If I am not mistaken > FreeBSD is predominantly a server-side system, with X running only > occasionally I'd disagree with that. I don't know whether or not the majority of FreeBSD installations are servers or personal computers but the chances are that the majority of server installations will have relatively few packages installed whereas most PC's are likely to make use of far more packages and are also likely to be using X. Building from ports to get the required options would be a much bigger task for these installations than it would be for the servers. -- Mike Clarke