From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 6 2:28:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.25.137.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AD3737B417 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 02:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 94672 invoked by uid 0); 6 Apr 2002 10:28:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) (196.25.137.65) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 10:28:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 10216 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Apr 2002 10:30:21 -0000 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 12:30:21 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , Ozone , freebsd-question@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome or lack of.[extended] Message-ID: <20020406103021.GA10035@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <1018057738.17538.82.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020406083141.T21276-100000@small.pukruppa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020406083141.T21276-100000@small.pukruppa.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 2002-04-06 (08:37), Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On 5 Apr 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:45, Ozone wrote: > > > I do not have the space or bandwidth to utilize any gnome on my machine. And > > > I have noticed that the ports have a love affair with gnome. Is there any > > > command or entry for /etc/make.conf i.e. "WANT_GNOME=NO" that would over > > > ride the ports Makefile. Or am I stuck hand editing every Makefile. > > > > As long as you define WITHOUT_GNOME=yes in /etc/make.conf, you should be > > set. If you don't define that, and the port defines WANT_GNOME, the > > existence of /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-config will be checked. If it exists, > > HAVE_GNOME will be set. > Is there some general principle how to exclude some package or > port? Like: > WITHOUT_EMACS=yes > WITHOUT_COMMUNICATOR4=yes No. But those are unlikely to be an optional library/dependency in many port builds. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message