Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:19:33 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Message-ID: <3C065205.5494.1E31B7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011129152327.D522@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <3C05DAEE.4140.1F43C46@localhost>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:51:26AM -0800
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On 29 Nov 2001, at 15:23, Josh Paetzel boldly uttered: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:51:26AM -0800, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > 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. > > No. In the case of mtr, it's the gtk dependancy that is the issue. > In reality the question of a port dependancy isn't a FreeBSD issue per > sae, it's an issue with the port. If you want to know "why" the port > requires a certain dependancy, it's probably more productive to ask > the port maintainer or the author of the program. I doubt that > knowing the answer to the why question is going to change the fact > that X is a required dependancy, though. > > A quick look at the Makefile for a port will tell you what > dependancies it relies upon. Occasionaly there are ports that can be > built with a WITHOUT_X=YES target as well. (cvsup-bin comes to mind) Thanks, I do remember this from my dealings with cvsup, and someone else emailed me about this as well. See below. > As a test, I built mtr on my X workstation and it in fact is not a > command line program at all. It came up in a gtk window and was all > pointy clicky. I built it on my firewall, which does not have X, and > it installed as a command line program, but it did give me this > message: To install with GTK support type WITH_GTK=YES. All I did was cd to the port directory and type "make" and then "make install". (the way it's supposed to work, AFAIK) I got no such question during the port build. > So to me it looks as if it should work just fine in either > environment. It made no attempt to fetch X or gtk on my firewall. Very weird. Did you build the port, or did you fetch the source directly from the developer? > > 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? > > No. But you are insane to want to use X based programs without X. ;) > Pick your poison carefully. Well, as I can well attest, it is not an "X program" (at least not a dedicated one), because it now works fine, just like it always has, as a command-line program, without X running. (and I now have 50- 100MB of wasted space devoted to unwanted X junk) Phil -- 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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