>> i think this whole thing is worth a few days to settle in our heads. >> essentially, if we believe that freebsd is used extensively in >> headless server deployments, we should make that easy and smooth. > But even a headless server can run X clients with the display being on > some other (presumably non-headless) machine. That is on of the > beauties of the X Windowing System.
[ thanks, but i am overly-familiar with the beauties and the some of the warts of x. ] someone installing a server may or may not want the x client version of a package as opposed to readline or curses. but, imiho, it would be good to make such decisions centralized, somewhat strong, and pretty clear. > The only part that would make no sense to install on a headless > machine is the X server itself and the support for it and the toys it occasionally seems to drag in. i really do not want the x client versions of emacs, cvsup, ... actually, i can not think of any ports i run on headless machines that i want spawning windows on my glass. ymmv, of course. i think that i would like to be able to say headless install and have to ack any port which wants to drag in x. randy _______________________________________________ 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"
