From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 9:23:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.campbell-mithun.com (Mercury.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BE537B90A for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 09:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from marlowe (Marlowe.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.184]) by mercury.campbell-mithun.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA12641 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 11:23:14 -0500 Message-ID: <009b01bfb389$96546cf0$b8209fc0@marlowe> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!? Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:23:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rahul Dhesi" 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