Wesley Shields <w...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > > Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > > >> Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install > > >> of mtools brings up a configuration menu in which the > > >> WITHOUT_X11 option can be set? I do not remember seeing > > >> any such thing, but it has probably been 6 months since > > >> I last tried it. > > > > > > when you do a make install for the mtools port, it does not > > > prompt you if you would like to build the port without X11. > > > This can be enabled by passing -DWITHOUT_X11 to make, or > > > adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to make.conf to apply it to all ports > > > that you build on that system > > > > And I should have to dig into each potential port to investigate > > whether such options might exist before finding out the hard way > > that my system is going to be loaded up with things I neither > > need nor want? Not a very user friendly approach. > > There is a "missing" target which will show you what will be > installed if you were to build the port.
So "make missing" is the shovel. The question stands. One reason for POLA is to minimize the *need* for such defensive practices. _______________________________________________ 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"
