From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 22:17:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E6A106564A for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D818FC18 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so20240019wyf.13 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:17:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+da+HLoHe/r42o3hIFoQf/dF2n32nEOwkqjWS8nJ0qQ=; b=UYAcW2BZkIBod6aLukOOu6IA80WYpxsl3r/eKVcgV69Y89GZqd4OrjWPn6KlvgmLgV LmTOj9boxnVoZmQFEhfU7D/tKVY/zDU3HzYslI4cNw1hDKu6eGxjZAmdMFjt/3hJONjC 1Aiip3IxRZ2LpqnvKkB71fQhYHz3Ln2T+GMpU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SSC7qK2WtkklfSIygjEzfD5DchDeZqeoA1wLM6//rvieaSBAdcb4hmYb0vMtdphG5K /EnBICCDAyEtOgW00qlmW8uoWK7nMvfBiWZcw95UHY97N3G8OihxN3mhaG8MM9zRRP6K 3FVHZyh4oyO8p6qnkA+tzAiWLBb/mKMUX1uZE= Received: by 10.216.160.1 with SMTP id t1mr2319480wek.2.1294697863605; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o33sm14364316wej.37.2011.01.10.14.17.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:17:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:17:39 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110110221739.4311dc70@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20110110164204.4895fff0@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20110110164204.4895fff0@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:17:57 -0000 On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:04 +0000 RW wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas > > wrote: > > > > > I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't really > > > need and I can help you clean up by saving your installed ports as > > > 'binary packages' and re-installing just the bits that you > > > _really_ want to have around. Other than that, I don't know if > > > there's any way to change the status quo of the vim ports to be > > > able to satisfy automatically both types of user needs. > > > > > > > > My not a 'make config' target that asks weather we want > > vim/gvim/xvim (if X isn't installed?) > > There's already a slave port FWIW I just had a look and for me there is practically no difference. The additional direct dependencies are commonplace desktop dependency ports, and the vim binary shrinks from 1.7MB to 1.4MB, just 298kB.