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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:10:07 -0500
From:      Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11 ports all of a sudden want to be installed
Message-ID:  <868ubh2e1s.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
In-Reply-To: <47488147-9E98-4524-B2FF-009102F7681A@summerhill.org>
References:  <47488147-9E98-4524-B2FF-009102F7681A@summerhill.org>

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Rick Summerhill writes:

> Can someone explain what has changed?  Thanks,

I would guess the default options for a package have changed to include
X11 support, though that really is just a guess. You can use the
following strings to see if the X11 option is set for any root-level
packages installed on the system, and get a list of all root-level
packages, respectively:

$ pkg query -e '%#r = 0' %Ok | grep X11
$ pkg query -e '%#r = 0' %o

See pkg-query(8) for more information on that. I'm still a bit new to it
myself, hence my admittedly weak suggestions. In the long run though, the
only way to ensure that certain classes of software *never* get
installed is to build directly from ports, or use ports-mgmt/poudriere
to build your own packages.

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