Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:57:39 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting X11BASE Message-ID: <20070521185739.GA79660@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070521114932.pf1nvaa74kkwk4gk@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <46504986.1010205@netfence.it> <D18E5DEA208C2AA6714A7AB5@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <20070520202415.GA43326@xor.obsecurity.org> <76BFFE223D3D165D7F4283A3@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <20070521114932.pf1nvaa74kkwk4gk@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:49:32AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> (from Sun, 20 May 2007 > 16:28:56 -0500): > > >It would be nice if every port that you use on a headless system didn't > >require xorg libraries, but I suppose that's unrealistic. > > Add this to your make.conf: > ---snip--- > WITHOUT_X11=yes > NO_X11=yes # needed in the past and maybe still needed > ---snip--- > > Recompile every port you need which depends upon the x11 libs (e.g. gd > and php). Deinstall the x11 ports. > > Better would be to put this into make.conf before installing any port, > this way no x11 libs should be pulled in as a dependency from the > beginning. I think NO_X11 is a NOP. Also WITHOUT_X11 will only disable X support in ports for which it is optional. Many (probably most) ports that require X cannot work without it, and if such a port is either specified explicitly or pulled in as a dependency then you'll get what you asked for. Kris
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