From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 6:28:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bong.andmann.eu.org (world.peace.is [194.144.170.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B27B37B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 06:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andmann@bong.andmann.eu.org) Received: (from andmann@localhost) by bong.andmann.eu.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4SDRAL03195; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:27:10 GMT Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:27:10 +0000 From: "David S. Geirsson" To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evil ports! Message-ID: <20010528132710.D1036@bong.andmann.eu.org> References: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044B07@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net> <3B12516A.FAD1C17A@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B12516A.FAD1C17A@iowna.com>; from wmoran@iowna.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:23:54AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erhm... no, it isn't. For example, the editor "jed" doesn't require X. However, it is packaged with xjed, which is an X frontend. IIRC you had to change a #define in the makefile to disable xjed. On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:23:54AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Mike Oligny wrote: > > > > Is there any way to specify (globally) that I don't EVER want to install > > X? I'm getting tired of typing 'make install' and coming back five > > minutes later to see that it is in the middle of compiling the big bad > > GUI! grrrr... > > I'm a little confused here ... if you're compiling a port that runs > under X, how do you intend to use it if you're not using X? > If a port is compiling X as a dependency, it's a sure bet that it needs > X to run. > > -Bill > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Davíð Steinn Geirsson andmann@andmann.eu.org (354)-8696608 "Support staff hung over, Send aspirin and come back LATER." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message