From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 22 13:25:19 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8958BB9FF67 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:25:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp3.irishbroadband.ie (smtp3.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 551121651 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:25:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp3.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bQa8b-0006pd-F1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:05:09 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.86_2 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1bQa8q-000GK0-Ea for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:05:24 +0000 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:05:09 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making a server entirely without X Message-Id: <20160722140509.4d58c715c8821c72b9013987@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <945bba5d-ffb4-10cb-1467-f1f7ca4d73db@zyxst.net> References: <4fe29709-c000-43ac-01c5-38b607887f19@zyxst.net> <2AE900AC-9B5D-42D4-9715-4F7A5FBA6ADA@ohlste.in> <945bba5d-ffb4-10cb-1467-f1f7ca4d73db@zyxst.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:25:19 -0000 On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:54:49 +0100 tech-lists wrote: > On 22/07/2016 13:43, Jim Ohlstein wrote: > > Hello, > > > >> On Jul 22, 2016, at 8:38 AM, tech-lists wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to build a server entirely without X. What is the incantation > >> for make.conf please? Or is it incanted elsewhere? > > > > All X components are part of the ports/pkg system. If you don't want > > them, don't install them. > > But some ports will build X (or parts of X) as dependencies. Or > dependencies on dependencies. I want to prevent that. It used to be > something like WITHOUT_X11=YES in /etc/make.conf but that was a long > time ago and I think the syntax has changed. I'm looking for the new > syntax. X11=NO should do the job AFAICT. Disclaimer - I haven't tried it, just seen that bsd.sanity.make says X11 is the replacement for WITHOUT_X11. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith