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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 09:31:24 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/27709: [PATCH] WITHOUT_X is used by many ports, but not documented.
Message-ID:  <20010530093124.A92304@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <15124.32232.828130.553276@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:58:16PM -0500
References:  <15124.28553.521171.74698@guru.mired.org> <20010530043326.CC78C3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <15124.32232.828130.553276@guru.mired.org>

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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:58:16PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> NO_X is already 100% supported and documented in the make.conf man
> page. It's possible that some port maintainers are abusing it to do
> what WITHOUT_X does because WITHOUT_X isn't documented.

Not only possible, it happened.

When I patched the Ghostscript port to support building without X (so
that people using it as part of the docproj build didn't need to install
X), NO_X was the only documented variable.

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