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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2023 10:56:26 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Thomas Zander <riggs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-ports-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: 435d3d3bc31e - main - multimedia/mkvtoolnix-nox11: Add mkvtoolnix without GUI variant
Message-ID:  <20230306095626.f676jogbncx4rvfw@aniel.nours.eu>
In-Reply-To: <202303041646.324GkZLg017355@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202303041646.324GkZLg017355@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 04:46:35PM +0000, Thomas Zander wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by riggs:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=435d3d3bc31e7471a08f708dc8dd0ddb1b3876d2
> 
> commit 435d3d3bc31e7471a08f708dc8dd0ddb1b3876d2
> Author:     Thomas Zander <riggs@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2023-03-04 14:34:16 +0000
> Commit:     Thomas Zander <riggs@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2023-03-04 16:45:50 +0000
> 
>     multimedia/mkvtoolnix-nox11: Add mkvtoolnix without GUI variant
>     
>     Details: The default mkvtoolnix package comes with a large number of x11
>     related dependencies. Without UI, the tools still provide very useful
>     functionality, and are well suited for headless systems. Having a -nox11
>     instance of the port allows to provide an official GUI-free package.

Why not a flavor?
I think we should stop naming things nox11 because in the case of mkvtoolnix,
it depends on qt which can run without x11. imho we should use nogui or
something like that.

Bapt



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