Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:21:48 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Message-ID: <3C0795FC.2746.224A5D@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200111301647.fAUGlqd15442@ptavv.es.net> References: Your message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 PST." <3C06D1E3.14504.211C039@localhost>
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On 30 Nov 2001, at 8:47, Kevin Oberman boldly uttered: > > From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> > > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 -0800 > > > > Furtheremore, if I were to uncomment "NO_X= true", what would have > > happened when I went to install the mtr port, which wanted gtk as a > > dependency? Would it automatically not fetch/compile XF86, or would > > it do it anyway because gtk is a dependency? Aren't the settings in > > make.conf just for building the base system? > > I'd have to look at the Makefile for mtr to see how it would handle > this. Some tools still install without a GUI and others will fail to > install, at all. Since I'm not a programmer and I only compile software to create pre-written applications, I'm not an expert on makefiles. How am I to determine such esoterica as how a port will behave if it encounters the directive "NO_X= true" in /etc/make.conf? In a cursory view of the mtr port's Makefile, there is nothing in there that references "X" or "X-Windows", or "Xfree86".. only the "WANT_GTK= yes" line. I still contend that life for us lowly non-programmers would be vastly more productive if the port's install script simply stopped at some point and asked "I see you don't have X installed - do you want to install that big monster, or just skip GUI support?". -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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