On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:24:26 -0700 Cynthia Flynn <1cynthia2fly...@telus.net> wrote:
> Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:06 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >> Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennej...@freenet.de> wrote: > >>> Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > >>>> ... Cynthia Flynn wrote: > >>> [snip - syslinux pulls in too much X11 stuff] > >>>> I think the extra dependencies that you find listed for syslinux: > >>>> [snip] > >>>> come directly from mtools ... > >>> > >>> Yeah. It looks like mtools uses X11 by default, which IMHO is > >>> incorrect. Instead it should have an option to turn X11 _on_, > >>> rather than one for turning it _off_, as it currently does. > >> > >> IMO it is a POLA violation for mtools to depend on X11 *at all*. > >> > >> Instead of having an option, maybe the port should be split so that > >> mtools itself just provides the code to access FAT filesystems, and > >> (say) mtools-gui does the fancy display stuff. > > > > mtools already supports WITHOUT_X11 so if you don't want the GUI stuff, > > you can build the port > > without it. Personally, I think it makes more sense for mtools to be the > > full and complete representation > > of the actual program. > > Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install of mtools brings > up a configuration menu in which the WITHOUT_X11 option can be set? I do > not remember seeing any such thing, but it has probably been 6 months > since I last tried it. > mtools doesn't use config options. You have to set them on the command line when you install the port. --- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
