Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:27:23 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: official pkg repo with WITHOUT_X11=true Message-ID: <1725126A-1977-4583-8D4D-20A960008037@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20140602151207.GH66852@roberto-aw.eurocontrol.fr> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405281803440.43518@erdgeist.org> <20F90EAB-ADC5-468C-9AFD-73F93794C4B2@FreeBSD.org> <800bc8e04e4cfed10632cca993cce8fa@shatow.net> <43B971CB-4810-458D-BC5D-3DC2DC764E39@FreeBSD.org> <20140602151207.GH66852@roberto-aw.eurocontrol.fr>
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On 2 Jun 2014, at 16:12, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> = wrote: > According to David Chisnall on Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:19:41AM +0100: >> We can probably do a bit better by looking at the complete dependency = graph and removing any ports that have unconditional dependencies on X. = For a headless server, there's no reason to build any of the kde-* or = gnome-* ports or, indeed, X itself. I suspect that we could easily trim = 2/3 of the build time by omitting ports that have a GUI, GUI toolkits, = and so on. =20 >=20 > May I disagree? The only thing you don't need on an headless server = is X itself. I might want to run firefox on that server, the display = taken into account in the client machine (e.g. through ssh -X). >=20 > Or did I missed something? Yes. If you want to have the graphical versions of everything on the = server, then there's nothing stopping you from using the default package = repository. THe use case for the proposed no-X repo is installing a = headless server where you won't be doing X forwarding, and so want = versions of tools that are command-line-only. If you're explicitly = choosing not to install the GUI for Vim, the odds are you won't want = Firefox either... David
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