From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Feb 24 15:56:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13BF37B401; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp152.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.152]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1ONu1181805; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010224230908.C64525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:55:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: docproj depends on X11 now?!?! Cc: andreas@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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