Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:00:12 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Cynthia Flynn <1cynthia2flynn3@telus.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> Subject: Re: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72) Message-ID: <20090321130012.GA13049@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <49C43643.1000709@telus.net> References: <49C00745.1050607@telus.net> <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org> <49c1fd04.Ul73kIip/JpE7k7C%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <830D8719-1F55-4BE7-B6D5-3C711F2D57C1@exit2shell.com> <49C4098A.6030200@telus.net> <F2BBB2D6-B637-4FB6-9DCA-9966A539AE7A@exit2shell.com> <49C43643.1000709@telus.net>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > >> Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install of mtools brings > >> up a configuration menu in which the WITHOUT_X11 option can be set? I > >> do not remember seeing any such thing, but it has probably been 6 > >> months since I last tried it. > > > > when you do a make install for the mtools port, it does not prompt you > > if you would like to build the port without X11. This can be enabled by > > passing > > -DWITHOUT_X11 to make, or adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to make.conf to apply > > it to all ports that you build on that system > > And I should have to dig into each potential port to investigate whether > such options might exist before finding out the hard way that my system > is going to be loaded up with things I neither need nor want? Not a very > user friendly approach. There is a "missing" target which will show you what will be installed if you were to build the port. -- WXS
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