Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:23:29 -0500 From: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!? Message-ID: <009b01bfb389$96546cf0$b8209fc0@marlowe>
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"Rahul Dhesi" <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote in message news:20000501060813.82C1899F31@waltz.rahul.net... | I have encountered the following problems with ports: | | - Doing "make" in some ports directories requires X-Windows to be | installed even though the software will be used from the command line | only. It's possible to suppress this with various defines or [snip] So what is the workaround for this and/or where is it documented? This *is* supremely annoying, especially when I want to use something like expect or plotutils and not carry X Windows baggage around. I don't use X Windows on my machines and deliberately don't install it. I don't know who I suggest this to, but it would be EXCELLENT if there was a flag someplace that would keep X Windows from being built, ever, even if it halted building ports that wouldn't respect the flag. I imagine the ports that build with X but don't actually need it would have to be tweaked to work around this. Other than that, I give ports 8 out of 10 stars. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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