From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 14:21:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD8F37B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:21:45 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: "Kevin Oberman" Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:21:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3C0795FC.2746.224A5D@localhost> In-reply-to: <200111301647.fAUGlqd15442@ptavv.es.net> References: Your message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 PST." <3C06D1E3.14504.211C039@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 On 30 Nov 2001, at 8:47, Kevin Oberman boldly uttered: > > From: "Philip J. Koenig" > > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 -0800 > > > > Furtheremore, if I were to uncomment "NO_X= true", what would have > > happened when I went to install the mtr port, which wanted gtk as a > > dependency? Would it automatically not fetch/compile XF86, or would > > it do it anyway because gtk is a dependency? Aren't the settings in > > make.conf just for building the base system? > > I'd have to look at the Makefile for mtr to see how it would handle > this. Some tools still install without a GUI and others will fail to > install, at all. Since I'm not a programmer and I only compile software to create pre-written applications, I'm not an expert on makefiles. How am I to determine such esoterica as how a port will behave if it encounters the directive "NO_X= true" in /etc/make.conf? In a cursory view of the mtr port's Makefile, there is nothing in there that references "X" or "X-Windows", or "Xfree86".. only the "WANT_GTK= yes" line. I still contend that life for us lowly non-programmers would be vastly more productive if the port's install script simply stopped at some point and asked "I see you don't have X installed - do you want to install that big monster, or just skip GUI support?". -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message