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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:25:17 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r392958 - head/Mk/Uses
Message-ID:  <20150728222517.GF28638@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <55B7FFE0.3010705@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201507270545.t6R5je1l081455@repo.freebsd.org> <55B7FFE0.3010705@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 03:19:12PM -0700, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 7/26/15 10:45 PM, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> > Author: hrs
> > Date: Mon Jul 27 05:45:39 2015
> > New Revision: 392958
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/392958
> >=20
> > Log:
> >   Use -nox11-suffixed ports instead of DEPENDS_ARGS.
>=20
> I would really like to remove all -nox11 ports in the tree, or at least
> dependencies on them. Using dependencies on an OPTION like -nox11
> creates very inconsistent dependency trees and quickly leads to the user
> being unable to build the tree when using Poudriere.
>=20
> The problem is that some ports depend on -nox11 and others do not.
> Ignoring the X11 OPTION, other ports in the tree generally do not depend
> on an OPTION-based origin name. Users are expected to set the OPTIONS
> for what they want, even in dependencies. We have the global X11 OPTION
> that can be UNSET by a user to avoid using any X11, thus the dependency
> on -nox11 isn't needed anywhere.
>=20
Oh yes please yes this is wrong and causing more issues than it solves. Also
note, that nox11 was really interesting back in the time X was a big huge l=
arge
thing. Since that time it has been splitted into pieces and most of the time
nox11 is just for a couple of libs of small libs.

Best regards,
Bapt

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