I personally ALWAYS select -nox, as I use NOTHING with GUIs, so I personally would rather not require XQuartz. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos!
On 2013-11-20, at 6:10 PM, Jack Howarth <howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote: > Considering the dependency chain issues produced by certain packages > with -nox variants, it might be worthwhile to review those packages and > make a cold judgement on the cost/benefits in each case. For example, > texlive is a rather large package to build and if the user naively chooses the > wrong (ie, -nox) variant, they are forced to rebuild it. This was less of an > issue when we had official binary support but considering that the vast > majority > of users are building locally, the decision should be more on the metrics > of... > > 1) how much larger is the dependency train of the package with X11 support? > 2) how much longer does the build of the package itself take with X11 support? > 3) how much core functionality is lost from the package by skipping te X11 > support? > > I suspect a lot of the -nox variants have been added more as an exercise in > packaging technique than to provide real benefit (and less confusion) to the > majority of the user base. In those cases, we should seriously consider > deprecating the -nox variant with the addition of a obsoleted split-off > as a placeholder ala gnuplot-minimal. > Jack > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription > Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. > Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing > conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
