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Date:      Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:03:35 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port dependencies
Message-ID:  <86bp0oy49k.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <000301cbf0d5$f0de1e60$d29a5b20$@on.ca> (Matt Emmerton's message of "Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:33:16 -0400")
References:  <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <20110402025150.39722549.freebsd@edvax.de> <000301cbf0d5$f0de1e60$d29a5b20$@on.ca>

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>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> writes:

Matt> Every time I see a webserver with X11 on it, it's because of these two.  Of
Matt> course, using ghostscript*-nox11 as well as setting WITHOUT_X11=yes solves a
Matt> lot of this mess, but on a system that's already been "infested", it's
Matt> easier just to rebuild from scratch.

That's one of the first things I do with a fresh system that will be
only a server:

  echo "WITHOUT_X11=yes" >> /etc/make.conf

And then *never* use packages.  Only ports.

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