Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:42:01 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evil ports! Message-ID: <15123.46393.655916.918987@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <43183645@toto.iv>
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User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> types: > Maybe NO_X = YES in make.conf? I'm not sure. I ran my system without X > for a while and liked it quite a bit. You should check out X with Blackbox > though, very minimalistic. No, NO_X stops the *base system* from building things to support X. You want WITHOUT_X and WITHOUT_X11 (both, unfortunately). Of course, ports that don't support that - possibly because they can't - will still try and build X. To stop that, just remove /usr/ports/x11*, and arrange things so it won't get rebuilt. Ports that need X will try to build it - and fail. <mike > As told by, Bill Moran > > "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. > > See my other post regarding researching software before installing. > > 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. > > > > > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:23:54AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > Mike Oligny wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Is there any way to specify (globally) that I don't EVER want to install > > > > > X? I'm getting tired of typing 'make install' and coming back five > > > > > minutes later to see that it is in the middle of compiling the big bad > > > > > GUI! grrrr... > > > > > > > > I'm a little confused here ... if you're compiling a port that runs > > > > under X, how do you intend to use it if you're not using X? > > > > If a port is compiling X as a dependency, it's a sure bet that it needs > > > > X to run. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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