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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:30:23 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Cynthia Flynn <1cynthia2flynn3@telus.net>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72
Message-ID:  <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <49C00745.1050607@telus.net> <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:11:38 +0100
Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:25:41PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote:
[snip - syslinux pulls in too much X11 stuff]
> I think the extra dependencies that you find listed for syslinux:
> 
>     > grep pkgdep /var/db/pkg/syslinux-3.72/+CONTENTS
>     @pkgdep kbproto-1.0.3
>     @pkgdep perl-5.8.8_1
>     @pkgdep pkg-config-0.23_1
>     @pkgdep xtrans-1.0.4
>     @pkgdep xproto-7.0.10_1
>     @pkgdep libXdmcp-1.0.2_1
>     @pkgdep libXau-1.0.3_2
>     @pkgdep libX11-1.1.3_1,1
>     @pkgdep libICE-1.0.4,1
>     @pkgdep libSM-1.0.3,1
>     @pkgdep mtools-3.9.10_4
> 
> come directly from mtools, which seems to have a similar list of
> dependencies. Once the mtools dependency list is fixed, we should
> be ok.
> 

Yeah.  It looks like mtools uses X11 by default, which IMHO is incorrect.
Instead it should have an option to turn X11 _on_, rather than one for
turning it _off_, as it currently does.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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