From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 3 2:14:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536F814A1A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 02:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id EAA10556; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:14:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-105.tnt1.rac.cyberlynk.net(209.224.182.105) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma010554; Sun Oct 3 04:14:15 1999 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991003040915.00a6fa20@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 04:09:15 -0500 To: Sean-Paul Rees , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Dedicated Servers and XFree86 In-Reply-To: <37F6E3F6.C8119977@dreamfire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:04 PM 10/2/99 -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: >I was attempting to install PostgreSQL on a server today, and it >requires TK8.0. TK requires X. This particular server runs headless, >keyboardless, and is controlled 100% by remote. I'd rather not have X >installed, to save diskspace and any present/future security holes it >may open. > >How do I get the software I want, without having to install X; or is X >pretty much a necessity? Might get away with just installing the libs from CD. Worked in the past for other ports that require X (like vim), but you all of X was not required. Or you could make, but not install, X and find what is required. Would be nice if one could build and install only the libs from the port. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve '86 Yamaha MaxiumX (not FBSD powered) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message