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. :) > N > -- > Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. > Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, > hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. > Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. > -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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