Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:51:26 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Message-ID: <3C05DAEE.4140.1F43C46@localhost>
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Speaking of the devil here.. (see below) Can someone please tell me *why* installing the port of a simple command-line ping utility (mtr, otherwise known as Matt's traceroute) requires retrieving 30MB of Xfree86 files, compiling and installing, on a machine that doesn't run X? It seems to have something to do with "gmake", which is a dependency of mtr. Am I really *that* insane wanting to build BSD boxes without X, when simple command-line utilities like that force me to install all that stuff anyway? Phil Previously I wrote: > - Sysinstall also provides no indication of package dependencies. I > am constantly taken by surprise that some package I chose to install > has a massive list of dependencies, in particular X-related packages > which are useless to me when I (frequently) setup boxes without any > sign of X-Windows. I believe it would be massively beneficial to > indicate which packages/distributions rely on ie X-Windows (or other > programs) during the selection process so we can avoid this mess. (In > the latest case I have a feeling it was my unfortunate selection of > "gtop" or "gnutop", which I assumed was just a GNU top command, but I > think it installed tons of Gnome and other GUI stuff too) (WISHLIST) -- 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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