Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:29:27 +0000 From: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency explosions Message-ID: <6d1eb20d-4597-8176-3dbd-661648a6a03c@gjunka.com> In-Reply-To: <20161003151148.4860ca1a@curlew.lan> References: <2df71272-7b98-ad73-650a-3ec70beb71d5@freebsd.org> <d14d1aaf-5bdb-2e09-2892-2e32c4db0810@FreeBSD.org> <19d248ae-8919-fdc9-84e8-ff90ae761e6f@gjunka.com> <20161003151148.4860ca1a@curlew.lan>
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On 03/10/2016 14:11, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:11:43 +0000 > Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com> 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. > I have been wondering if it would be possible to have two distinct set of packages compiled automatically, one tailored for X and one for the console. It seems that requirements of both environment are quite opposite. The server-side requires small amount of packages without X because it wants to run the system headless, as long as possible and without interruptions and restarts. Whereas the X/PC environment always wants to have everything latest and newest. In the Linux world they would just create a new distribution, even in the BSD world there is PC-BSD/TrueOS. But we have ports and can re-use the same base for two distinctive set of packages. I don't believe we can create pre-compiled packages for FreeBSD in such a way, that both camps are happy (which this thread is one of many signs of). Grzegorz
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