From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 27 22:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01039 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01032 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA00156; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:34:06 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980628153402.12114@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:34:02 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Brett Taylor , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? References: <19980628095002.19830@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:53:57AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:53:57AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > > One way, for example, would be to put up a personal web page listing > > those ports which I know to work without X, but I can't see any good way > > Ugh! Yes, well, this is the best I can come up with :-) > > Looking in every Makefile might seem a pain, but quite tolerable when > > simply looking for a port to do a particular job without X. Consider that > > You should look in the Makefile of any port before you compile it... If you know what the stuff in a Makefile is. Beginners won't. I'm juuuust staaaarting to learn about them, and I've been blindly typing "make install" for months. > However, it shouldn't be necessary to look in the Makefile to > determine if the port requires X. > > Currently you should be able to divine it from the CATEGORIES > (yes, I know, many of the ports don't have the right CATEGORIES, > but that's a problem due to the fast growth of the collection and > education is the solution to it). You mean categories like audio? graphics? We found that didn't help. If I could use grep to exclude everything uninteresting from INDEX I'd be happy as larry, but we haven't found a way to do that that comes close. > Actually, I prefer the patch asami posted (with the caveat that I > lost the patch and can't look over it right now to make sure I > still prefer it :). Hmm.. ok, maybe there's a good solution there but it would have gone over my head. I'm just a user who wanted to explain why it's hard to avoid installing the wrong stuff. I think my point has been taken and there's nothing more I can usefully contribute. It'll be fixed one day if it can be, and that's great. Thanks for listening. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message