From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 27 14:17:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01546 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01541 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA04928; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:11:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03033; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:06:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199806272106.XAA03033@semyam.dinoco.de> To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: Sue Blake , Stefan Eggers , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:15:26 EDT." Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:06:28 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > X it is often difficult to know whether that port requires X before a > > long expensive and frustratingly useless download. They aren't all > Ports that need X are identified by belonging to one of the > following categories: How about telling sysinstall about it? If chinese/cxterm gets high- lighted it could add an "(needs X11)" in front of the description shown at the bottom of the list by recognizing it is also in x11. Same for TkXX. Not a nice solution but one working right now w/o any serious modifi- cation to the INDEX file at this point. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message