Le 03/10/2016 à 16:57, Matthieu Volat a écrit : > On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:29:27 +0000 > Grzegorz Junka <li...@gjunka.com> wrote: > >> On 03/10/2016 14:11, Mike Clarke wrote: >>> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 13:11:43 +0000 >>> Grzegorz Junka <li...@gjunka.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Shouldn't all packages default to noX dependencies? If I am not mistaken >>>> FreeBSD is predominantly a server-side system, with X running only >>>> occasionally >>> I'd disagree with that. I don't know whether or not the majority of >>> FreeBSD installations are servers or personal computers but the chances >>> are that the majority of server installations will have relatively few >>> packages installed whereas most PC's are likely to make use of far >>> more packages and are also likely to be using X. Building from ports >>> to get the required options would be a much bigger task for these >>> installations than it would be for the servers. >>> >> I have been wondering if it would be possible to have two distinct set >> of packages compiled automatically, one tailored for X and one for the >> console. It seems that requirements of both environment are quite >> opposite. The server-side requires small amount of packages without X >> because it wants to run the system headless, as long as possible and >> without interruptions and restarts. Whereas the X/PC environment always >> wants to have everything latest and newest. In the Linux world they >> would just create a new distribution, even in the BSD world there is >> PC-BSD/TrueOS. But we have ports and can re-use the same base for two >> distinctive set of packages. I don't believe we can create pre-compiled >> packages for FreeBSD in such a way, that both camps are happy (which >> this thread is one of many signs of). >> >> Grzegorz > That must be somehow possible and even extensible to be something like > macports variants
We have works in the pipes to do variants like package builds, yes, but the work is currently stalled because it breaks every tools we have. -- Mathieu Arnold
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