Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:06:22 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: wxs@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, 1cynthia2flynn3@telus.net, skreuzer@exit2shell.com Subject: Re: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72) Message-ID: <49c548be.Q0xaxZT5EOWlX8s/%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20090321130012.GA13049@atarininja.org> References: <49C00745.1050607@telus.net> <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org> <49c1fd04.Ul73kIip/JpE7k7C%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <830D8719-1F55-4BE7-B6D5-3C711F2D57C1@exit2shell.com> <49C4098A.6030200@telus.net> <F2BBB2D6-B637-4FB6-9DCA-9966A539AE7A@exit2shell.com> <49C43643.1000709@telus.net> <20090321130012.GA13049@atarininja.org>
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Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > > Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > > >> Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install > > >> of mtools brings up a configuration menu in which the > > >> WITHOUT_X11 option can be set? I do not remember seeing > > >> any such thing, but it has probably been 6 months since > > >> I last tried it. > > > > > > when you do a make install for the mtools port, it does not > > > prompt you if you would like to build the port without X11. > > > This can be enabled by passing -DWITHOUT_X11 to make, or > > > adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to make.conf to apply it to all ports > > > that you build on that system > > > > And I should have to dig into each potential port to investigate > > whether such options might exist before finding out the hard way > > that my system is going to be loaded up with things I neither > > need nor want? Not a very user friendly approach. > > There is a "missing" target which will show you what will be > installed if you were to build the port. So "make missing" is the shovel. The question stands. One reason for POLA is to minimize the *need* for such defensive practices.
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