On Wed, 9 May 2007, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Bj?rn Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to install php5-core from ports. The build process makes use 
> > of gettext which on its turn makes use of lib-expat from X11-base. As 
> > I'm working on a web-server I have no need for X11
> 
> Obviously you do.
> 
> Folks, get it into your heads:  The X11 libraries are very much a
> part of the base system and you need to have them installed.  This
> has nothing whatsoever to do with whether you have a shiny graphics
> display connected to that machine.

I'd be more happy with this argument if installing the necessary libraries
didn't also install setuid X11 binaries.

-d

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