From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 17:19:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D1E37B424 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA59602; Mon, 28 May 2001 17:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B12EB1E.F69B9B04@DougBarton.net> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:19:42 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Oligny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Evil ports! References: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044B07@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net> 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 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... One technique that I use with success that I haven't seen mentioned yet is to do a 'make clean' in the port directory before I start building it. This will show you all of the dependencies. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message