Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:49:16 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <200606051149.16460.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <4483FAA5.5090104@netspace.net.au> References: <4483F479.2020100@netspace.net.au> <200606051123.30711.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <4483FAA5.5090104@netspace.net.au>
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On Monday 05 June 2006 11:34, Russell Shaw wrote: > Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > On Monday 05 June 2006 11:08, Russell Shaw wrote: > >>If i use XFree86, will any of the ports package dependencies complain > >> about not having Xorg? > > > > Packages will complain, ports shouldnt though. You need to set > > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable in make.conf (see > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-VERSI > >ON). > > Hi, > I read that part before. > > I'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but have been reading about it for a few > hours. > > When you say packages will complain, will they stop when i use > > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 > > and most things that rely on X will be happy? Unfortunately no. Binary packages record dependencies on other packages and as X.org is default X11 (for contemporary versions of FreeBSD) dependencies on xorg-* packages are recorded for official packages. make.conf is not consulted when installing packages at all. If you install stuff from ports though, your setting of X_WINDOW_SYSTEM will cause your own packages to depend on XFree86-* packages so in that case things that rely on X will be happy as long as you build them from ports yourself. Dejan
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