Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:27:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Dan Langille <dan@freebsddiary.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: skip requires X? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002012126490.305-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002012041440.10588-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com>
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Now that way of approaching things I can completely agree with. It would > > indeed be a good thing if it were possible to option in or out some > > dependencies at build time. Make packaging damn near impossible, tho. > > Not especially. There's no reason you couldn't make the package require > all the bells and whistles through reasonable defaults, and still allow > people to build pared down versions by compiling the port from scratch > (using something like the NO_X11 environment variable, for example). A > good example of something that works like this already is cvsup; the > package assumes you have X installed, but you can build the port without X > support by setting NO_X11=YES. Well, a long time back when we discussed this, the feeling was that every kind of package would have to be built, and worse, named. > > Cheers, > Mick > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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