Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 21 May 2007
14:57:39 -0400):
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:49:32AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 20 May 2007
16:28:56 -0500):
>It would be nice if every port that you use on a headless system didn't
>require xorg libraries, but I suppose that's unrealistic.
Add this to your make.conf:
---snip---
WITHOUT_X11=yes
NO_X11=yes # needed in the past and maybe still needed
---snip---
Recompile every port you need which depends upon the x11 libs (e.g. gd
and php). Deinstall the x11 ports.
Better would be to put this into make.conf before installing any port,
this way no x11 libs should be pulled in as a dependency from the
beginning.
I think NO_X11 is a NOP.
It should be, but once I stumbled upon this.
Also WITHOUT_X11 will only disable X support in ports for which it is
optional. Many (probably most) ports that require X cannot work
without it, and if such a port is either specified explicitly or
pulled in as a dependency then you'll get what you asked for.
Yes, but most of the time the X11 libs are pulled in on a headless
server because of some dependency you don't need (e.g. php->gd->X11
for XPM which is not needed if you use PNG; or ghostscript->X11 on a
printserver where you don't intend to display the postscript before
printing). In this case WITHOUT_X11 works without a problem (at least
on those servers I use this).
Bye,
Alexander.
--
I have gained this by philosophy:
that I do without being commanded what others
do only from fear of the law.
-- Aristotle
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