From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 17: 5:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7D837B43C for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust36.tnt11.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.42.224.36]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16464; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA61864; Mon, 28 May 2001 20:04:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105290004.UAA61864@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Evil ports! In-Reply-To: <3B1258CB.77BAF4BB@iowna.com> from Bill Moran at "May 28, 2001 09:55:23 am" To: wmoran@iowna.com (Bill Moran) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:04:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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