Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:01:31 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make.conf no x option Message-ID: <m2tz37d46c.wl%randy@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <20090526194617.GA16353@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <m2vdnodrq5.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090526113714.GC1043@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <m2r5ycdr6c.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090526120948.GA14134@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <a01628140905260545q149622b9xfbde9fab3c49eef4@mail.gmail.com> <m2ljojelx6.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090526194617.GA16353@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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>> i think this whole thing is worth a few days to settle in our heads. >> essentially, if we believe that freebsd is used extensively in >> headless server deployments, we should make that easy and smooth. > But even a headless server can run X clients with the display being on > some other (presumably non-headless) machine. That is on of the > beauties of the X Windowing System. [ thanks, but i am overly-familiar with the beauties and the some of the warts of x. ] someone installing a server may or may not want the x client version of a package as opposed to readline or curses. but, imiho, it would be good to make such decisions centralized, somewhat strong, and pretty clear. > The only part that would make no sense to install on a headless > machine is the X server itself and the support for it and the toys it occasionally seems to drag in. i really do not want the x client versions of emacs, cvsup, ... actually, i can not think of any ports i run on headless machines that i want spawning windows on my glass. ymmv, of course. i think that i would like to be able to say headless install and have to ack any port which wants to drag in x. randy
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