Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 11:49:48 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Randy Katz <fastpoint@ccsales.com>, Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!?) Message-ID: <20000501114948.J24573@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000501234432.A2998@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 11:44:32PM %2B0530 References: <009b01bfb389$96546cf0$b8209fc0@marlowe> <20000501101044.F24573@fw.wintelcom.net> <00b901bfb38f$e4625cd0$b8209fc0@marlowe> <20000501105116.B32172@ccsales.com> <20000501113038.I24573@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000501234432.A2998@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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* Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> [000501 11:45] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein said on May 1, 2000 at 11:30:38: > > * Randy Katz <fastpoint@ccsales.com> [000501 11:21] wrote: > > > Guys!!! > > > > > > Oh come on, can't you try ./configure --help > > > All the parameters are there....that is if you know how to cd to the source (src) directory...!!! > > > > no, ports should handle this, and is quite capable of handling it, > > if no one has this done by the weekend and it's ok with the ports > > master I'll implement it myself. > > > > I was very annoyed to see that mrtg pulled in python which pulled > > in X11 and a lot of other huge items just because mrtg comes with > > a single python script that I didn't want. > > > > Ports are supposed to be easy and the way to avoid mucking with > > terribly annoying configure scripts. > > This is actually more general than x11 -- very often a program > optionally depends on something else, ie the configure script would > simply continue happily with that option disabled if it didn't find > it, but the port insists on pulling in that dependency too. For > instance the Qt/KDE port pulls in Mesa, but as far as I can see Mesa > only affects some qt demos and a couple of screensavers in KDE. It > would be nice if there were some kind of dialogue (or perhaps an > environment variable or make option) to ask the user whether such port > dependencies affecting only optional features should also be installed > or just ignored. Right now one can only edit the port makefile to > remove the dependency. OK, someone add "PORTS_MINIMAL=yes" to my wishlist. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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