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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:09:08 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        nik@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, andreas@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docproj depends on X11 now?!?!
Message-ID:  <20010224230908.C64525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010223142310.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:23:10PM -0800
References:  <XFMail.010223142310.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:23:10PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> Woah.  I was building a test release with DOCS turned on and happened to look
> over and saw that it was installing the XFree86 3.3.6 port due to a dependency
> on libpng.  Which is an interactive port.  Which makes release not be
> non-interactive anymore.  This needs to be fixed, esp. before it comes time to
> rolling 4.3.

jasone on #fightclub just told me that Ghostscript turns on the X11
display device by default.

Andreas, with your MAINTAINER hat on, could we patch the ghostscript6 port 
so that it asks whether or not the end user needs the X11 support included 
or not, and adjust the patches and dependencies as necessary?

I'm happy to do the work for this.

N
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