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Date:      Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:55:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        andreas@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docproj depends on X11 now?!?!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010224102554.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010224230908.C64525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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On 24-Feb-01 Nik Clayton wrote:
> 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.

Eek!  Please don't make it ask.  Or rather, provide a variable I can set in the
environment that release can use to make it just DTRT w/o asking the user
anything.  release needs to be non-interactive. :)

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