From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 1 9:52: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB833E71 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 15E6319CF; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:51:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:51:52 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Chuck Robey Cc: Will Andrews , Dan Langille , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: skip requires X? Message-ID: <20000201125152.D373@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <20000201083428.E482@argon.blackdawn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:42:07PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:42:07PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > What about gd? It's a graphics library, which is totally justified in > having a dependency on a graphics output device (X). gd produces images. Whether or not the images go to a file or to a monitor shouldn't matter. The Apache ports have gd as an optional dependency. However, gd is used in this case to produce graphics to show on the webserver, not to show on the local machine's monitor. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message