Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:14:37 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: X11 required for Document Project? Message-ID: <20020313181437.GB90154@nathan.ruhr.de>
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Hi, I am currently updating the various ports installed on my box and I had to notice that it is no longer possible to install the docproj meta port without getting X11 installed. The main reason is the dependency on peps, which has a hard dependecny on X11. In a fit of frustration, I kicked peps, netpbm, libxslt, and scr2png (everything related to graphics) out of the port. links also went away as I do not see the point of installing Yet Another Browser. After that, it was time for a pkg_delete frenzy, followed by a rebuild of the complete port. After a generous make clean in /usr/doc, I am still able to build the Release Notes, the FAQ and the FDP primer. I cannot build anything that use eps or scr graphics, or produces .ps/.pdf files, of course. But that's a price I do not mind to pay, because I saved myself from building all these packages: XFree86-3.3.6_10 freetype2-2.0.8 gd-1.8.4_5 ghostscript-gnu-6.52_5 jpeg-6b_1 netpbm-9.24 peps-1.0 pkgconfig-0.10.0 png-1.2.1 python-2.2_1 scr2png-1.1 tiff-3.5.7 And this list doesn't even include all the build infrastructure you have to build and install along the way. Things like imake, gmake, unzip, ... In other words, it would probably be WAY more effective to forget the on-the-fly graphics conversion stuff and simply stuff the .png version of our .eps files into the repository as well. The same thing applies to the .scr files. On a related note, I noticed that the 3.1 stylesheets have been removed from the port because no docs require it (rev. 1.30). Well, the 3.1 stylesheets are still installed, because both sgmlformat and docbook-1.2 need them (according to +REQUIRED_BY). Actually, we are still installing every docbook version that ever existed and linuxdoc for good measure. Is this really neccessary? Do we still have documents that use linuxdoc? Or any docbook stylesheet version < 3.1? There two english documents and a lot of translations that still use 3.1, but everything older than that should go into the bit bucket. IMHO, of course. /s/Udo -- "I don't want to run a company. I'm not good at managing people. You have a problem with the guy in the next cubicle? I don't care. Shoot him or something." -- Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, Rolling Stone, May 97 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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