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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:42:47 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        "Mike A. Oligny" <mike@freebsd.schema.ca>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Protecting yourself from gnome
Message-ID:  <3D0F7F27.D4EF567@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020618105513.T1723-100000@master.gorean.org> <1024424304.478.56.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>

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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 13:56, Doug Barton wrote:
> > On 18 Jun 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> > > You should probably familiarize yourself with a new port's Makefile.  If
> > > you set WITHOUT_GNOME in /etc/make.conf, that will protect you from
> > > GNOME-optional ports.
> >
> > I think the point being lost here is that it should not be the user's
> > responsibility to protect themselves from gnome. If I don't say "I want
> > gnome," and don't have any gnome bits installed, gnome should not inflict
> > itself on me.
> 
> It doesn't. 

I think that the users who started this thread disagree....

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