Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 03:39:08 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Setting X11BASE Message-ID: <20070522073908.GA23192@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070522093507.7ut7s6uescgssg40@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <46504986.1010205@netfence.it> <D18E5DEA208C2AA6714A7AB5@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <20070520202415.GA43326@xor.obsecurity.org> <76BFFE223D3D165D7F4283A3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <20070521114932.pf1nvaa74kkwk4gk@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070521185739.GA79660@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070522093507.7ut7s6uescgssg40@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:35:07AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >Also WITHOUT_X11 will only disable X support in ports for which it is > >optional. Many (probably most) ports that require X cannot work > >without it, and if such a port is either specified explicitly or > >pulled in as a dependency then you'll get what you asked for. > > Yes, but most of the time the X11 libs are pulled in on a headless > server because of some dependency you don't need (e.g. php->gd->X11 > for XPM which is not needed if you use PNG; or ghostscript->X11 on a > printserver where you don't intend to display the postscript before > printing). In this case WITHOUT_X11 works without a problem (at least > on those servers I use this). It works perfectly well for its intended purpose. As long as one is not confused about what that purpose is ;-) Kris
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