On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:00:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notice dit already in 3.7 and 3.8. > > if you`ve a Port (f.e. nmap) and you select the no_x11 FLavor then a > depency wich needs X11 will get installed (at least the Portsystem tries > to do so) anyway and breaks with the message that X isn`t installed. > > Is there any plan to respect (and fix?) this behavior in 4.0? > E.g. at a Server I installed nmap_no_x11.. I don`t know what it was exaclt > (I guess python as depency of somethign nmap depends on or maybe tcl.. > can?t remmebr) but I got the error that X is missing and had to install > the one package (wich needs X to build?) except of using the Ports-System > even I specified FLAVOR=no_x11.
nmap depends on libdnet which depends on python which depends on tk which depends on x11. if this is difficult for you to understand, then don't use ports. with that being said, both dnet and python have flavors you can use to circumvent this.
