Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:06:28 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: rizzo@iet.unipi.it, gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: ports@freebsd.org, 1cynthia2flynn3@telus.net Subject: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72) Message-ID: <49c1fd04.Ul73kIip/JpE7k7C%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <49C00745.1050607@telus.net> <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > ... Cynthia Flynn wrote: > [snip - syslinux pulls in too much X11 stuff] > > I think the extra dependencies that you find listed for syslinux: > > [snip] > > come directly from mtools ... > > Yeah. It looks like mtools uses X11 by default, which IMHO is > incorrect. Instead it should have an option to turn X11 _on_, > rather than one for turning it _off_, as it currently does. IMO it is a POLA violation for mtools to depend on X11 *at all*. Instead of having an option, maybe the port should be split so that mtools itself just provides the code to access FAT filesystems, and (say) mtools-gui does the fancy display stuff.
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