From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 28 16:54:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F06437B42C for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 16:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 94235 invoked by uid 100); 28 May 2001 23:54:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15122.58679.408250.974251@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 18:54:31 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evil ports! In-Reply-To: <28573720@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > "David S. Geirsson" wrote: > > Erhm... no, it isn't. For example, the editor "jed" doesn't require X. > > However, it is packaged with xjed, which is an X frontend. IIRC you had to > > change a #define in the makefile to disable xjed. > Understood. I'd be curious to know how many ports fit into that > category. Grep through the Makefiles, looking for things that build WITHOUT_X or WITHOUT_X11 or similar. It seems that the author of the jed port - unlike the author of the vim and emacs ports - didn't bother implementing that switch. > See my other post regarding researching software before installing. Also see mine on how to fix it so that your system *never* tries to install X. It's pretty trivial. > Also, when you consider all the sofware that someone could complain > should have a global variable like that, the magnitude of iplementing > such a system, let alone maintaining it, gets considerable. It's clearly smaller than the effort needed to implement the ports we already have. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message