Date: 14 Mar 2001 14:04:05 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-X install? Message-ID: <44g0ggdvfe.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: garyf@turbopower.com's message of "13 Mar 2001 23:30:03 %2B0100" References: <714AD8888E79D211978700A0C90DFDB72F7362@inetmail1.turbopower.com>
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garyf@turbopower.com (Gary Frerking TurboPower) writes: > Checked the docs, checked the FAQs. If this is covered, I missed it. > > The FreeBSD install (and package system) seems to be geared towards > installing X (or having X installed) -- is there a way around this? There are a number of install options, most of which don't install X on the machine. The packages, however, *do* assume that X is installed. I think that's a reasonable decision, but I won't try to start that discussion up again; if you want, you can just wait for it to come around again on the guitar... The ports system is the way that you install software tuned to your machine. It's easy, it tends to use less bandwidth than downloading the packages, it doesn't involve a lot of technical knowledge as long as you have an Internet connection, and it allows tweaking while avoiding the exponential explosion of having different packages for every combination of window manager and toolkit. > Do most people install X? I would guess a reasonable number of people don't. A very large number of people don't. -- "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar Wilde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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