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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 12:30:21 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, Ozone <ozone@theshop.net>, freebsd-question@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gnome or lack of.[extended]
Message-ID:  <20020406103021.GA10035@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020406083141.T21276-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
References:  <1018057738.17538.82.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020406083141.T21276-100000@small.pukruppa.de>

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On Sat 2002-04-06 (08:37), Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On 5 Apr 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 20:45, Ozone wrote:
> > > I do not have the space or bandwidth to utilize any gnome on my machine. And
> > > I have noticed that the ports have a love affair with gnome. Is there any
> > > command or entry for /etc/make.conf i.e. "WANT_GNOME=NO" that would over
> > > ride the ports Makefile. Or am I stuck hand editing every Makefile.
> >
> > As long as you define WITHOUT_GNOME=yes in /etc/make.conf, you should be
> > set.  If you don't define that, and the port defines WANT_GNOME, the
> > existence of /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-config will be checked.  If it exists,
> > HAVE_GNOME will be set.
> Is there some general principle how to exclude some package or
> port? Like:
> WITHOUT_EMACS=yes
> WITHOUT_COMMUNICATOR4=yes

No.  But those are unlikely to be an optional library/dependency in many
port builds.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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