Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:04:52 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: wmoran@iowna.com (Bill Moran) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evil ports! Message-ID: <200105290004.UAA61864@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <3B1258CB.77BAF4BB@iowna.com> from Bill Moran at "May 28, 2001 09:55:23 am"
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Maybe NO_X = YES in make.conf? I'm not sure. I ran my system without X for a while and liked it quite a bit. You should check out X with Blackbox though, very minimalistic. Ian As told by, Bill Moran > "David S. Geirsson" wrote: > > > > 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. > > Understood. I'd be curious to know how many ports fit into that > category. > See my other post regarding researching software before installing. > Also, when you consider all the sofware that someone could complain > should have a global variable like that, the magnitude of iplementing > such a system, let alone maintaining it, gets considerable. > > > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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