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Date:      Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:46:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
To:        eivind@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cpiazza@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/emacs Makefile
Message-ID:  <199907060746.AAA10705@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990705175745.A31889@bitbox.follo.net> (message from Eivind Eklund on Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:57:45 %2B0200)
References:  <199907040328.UAA58434@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990705175745.A31889@bitbox.follo.net>

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 * From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>

 * Wouldn't the right solution to these problems be to only define
 * USE_XLIB when PACKAGE_BUILDING is defined?  The current set of

Maybe.  But that's just a hack, and not much better than the current
one, anyway.

 * people installing servers; if I had been confronted with this when I
 * started using FreeBSD, I suspect I would have gone right back to using
 * Linux (don't take that as a flame, please, just as an attempt at

Be very careful with that L-word, Eivind.  Lots of people around here
don't like it. :>

 * Another alternative is of course to create a better set of X11 ports -
 * a set where the base doesn't install lots of X-servers or ask lots of
 * questions, but just install the stuff you need to make things work
 * (the libraries, includes, and possibly the fonts, I guess).

I'm actually working on this now.  This should solve the X dependency
problem once and for all, too.

-PW


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