From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 20 06:51:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F50F1065672 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0478FC1F for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:51:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 3442 invoked by uid 399); 20 Mar 2009 06:51:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 20 Mar 2009 06:51:00 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:50:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: perryh@pluto.rain.com In-Reply-To: <49c1fd04.Ul73kIip/JpE7k7C%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Message-ID: References: <49C00745.1050607@telus.net> <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org> <49c1fd04.Ul73kIip/JpE7k7C%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xD5B2F0FB Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: ports@freebsd.org, 1cynthia2flynn3@telus.net, rizzo@iet.unipi.it, gary.jennejohn@freenet.de, skreuzer@exit2shell.com Subject: Re: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:51:06 -0000 On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> ... Cynthia Flynn wrote: >> [snip - syslinux pulls in too much X11 stuff] >>> I think the extra dependencies that you find listed for syslinux: >>> [snip] >>> come directly from mtools ... >> >> Yeah. It looks like mtools uses X11 by default, which IMHO is >> incorrect. Instead it should have an option to turn X11 _on_, >> rather than one for turning it _off_, as it currently does. > > IMO it is a POLA violation for mtools to depend on X11 *at all*. > > Instead of having an option, maybe the port should be split so that > mtools itself just provides the code to access FAT filesystems, and > (say) mtools-gui does the fancy display stuff. That sounds like a reasonable course of action. I've cc'ed the maintainer to get their opinion. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection